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Carnation

//kɑɹˈneɪ.ʃən// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a rosy pink or red colour. not-comparable
  2. 2
    Of a human flesh color. archaic, not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    pink or pinkish wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A type of Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its flowers.; originally, Dianthus caryophyllus countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    a pink or reddish-pink color wordnet
  3. 3
    A type of Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its flowers.; other members of genus Dianthus and hybrids countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors wordnet
  5. 5
    The type of flower they bear, originally flesh-coloured, but since hybridizing found in a variety of colours. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    A rosy pink colour countable, uncountable

    "And the women of New Bedford, they bloom like their own red roses. But roses only bloom in summer; whereas the fine carnation of their cheeks is perennial as sunlight in the seventh heavens."

  2. 7
    The pinkish colors used in art to render human face and flesh archaic, countable, especially, uncountable
  3. 8
    A scarlet colour. countable, uncountable

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle French carnation (“flesh color, complexion”), either via Italian carnagione (“flesh color”) or directly from Late Latin carnātiō (“fleshiness”), from Latin carō (“flesh, meat”) + ātiō (“-ation”). As a flower and its color, possibly instead from corruption in French of coronation (“crowning, crowned thing”) under the influence of carnation, from the flower's supposed resemblance to a crown.

Etymology 2

From Middle French carnation (“flesh color, complexion”), either via Italian carnagione (“flesh color”) or directly from Late Latin carnātiō (“fleshiness”), from Latin carō (“flesh, meat”) + ātiō (“-ation”). As a flower and its color, possibly instead from corruption in French of coronation (“crowning, crowned thing”) under the influence of carnation, from the flower's supposed resemblance to a crown.

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