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Clove pink

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A plant with clove-scented flowers, Dianthus caryophyllus, formerly used as a flavoring and for fragrance. The ancestor of the carnation.

    "...while the bed of the rich crimson clove pink was like one of the spice islands, the very Manilla of the garden."

  2. 2
    Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors wordnet
  3. 3
    The flower of this plant.

Etymology

From clove (“spice”) + pink (“flower”).

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