Carnation
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adjective


(1)   Pink or pinkish

noun


(2)   A pink or reddish-pink color
(3)   Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors
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Etymology


Recorded since 1538, either (for its original color) from Medieval (=modern) French carnation "person's color or complexion" (probably from carnagione "flesh color," from Late carnatio "fleshiness", from Latin caro "flesh") or a corruption of coronation (from coronare 'to crown', from corona 'crown'; because of the flower's use in chaplets or from the toothed crown-like look of the petals.

Noun



  1. A type of Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its flowers.
    1. originally Dianthus caryophyllus
    2. other members of genus Dianthus and hybrids
  2. The type of flower they bear, originally flesh-coloured, but since hybridizing found in a variety of colours.
  3. A rosy pink colour
  4. The pinkish colors used in art to render human face and flesh
  5. Sometimes, a scarlet colour.

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