carnation
carnation
noun
noun
- a double-flowered cultivated variety of clove pink, with grey-green leaves and showy pink, white, or red flowers
麝香石竹，康乃馨 - Dianthus caryophyllus, family Caryophyllaceae: many cultivars
拉丁名Dianthus caryophyllus，石竹科：多种栽培品种
■[mass noun]a rosy pink colour
肉红色，粉红色
- late 16th cent.: perhaps based on a misreading of Arabic ḳaranful 'clove or clove pink', from Greek karyophyllon. The early forms suggest confusion with a different word carnation 'rosy pink colour', with incarnation, and with coronation
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