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Carnation

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Noun

1. carnation, clove pink, dianthus caryophyllus, gillyflower

Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors

2. carnation

a pink or reddish-pink color

Adjective

3. carnation

pink or pinkish

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Carnation

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noun
1. Also called: clove pink
a Eurasian caryophyllaceous plant, Dianthus caryophyllus, cultivated in many varieties for its white, pink, or red flowers, which have a fragrant scent of cloves
2. 
the flower of this plant
3. 
a. 
a pink or reddish-pink colour
b. 
(as adjective)
a carnation dress
4. (often plural)
a flesh tint in painting

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Carnation

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noun
1. 
a. 
a popular garden and greenhouse plant (Dianthus caryophyllus) of the pink family, usually with white, pink, or red double flowers that smell like cloves
b. 
the flower of this plant
2.  [often pl.]
a flesh-colored tint formerly used in painting
3. 
moderate to deep red

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Carnation

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n.
1.
a. Any of numerous cultivated forms of a perennial plant (Dianthus caryophyllus) having showy, variously colored, usually double, often fragrant flowers with fringed petals.
b. A flower of this plant. Also called clove pink.
2. A pinkish tint once used in painting.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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