carnation
康乃馨,安康,锦鲤
Definitions
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- : any of numerous cultivated varieties of the clove pink, Dianthus caryophyllus, having long-stalked, fragrant, usually double flowers in a variety of colors: the state flower of Ohio.
- : pink; light red.
- : Obsolete. the color of flesh.
- 1
- : having the color carnation.
Examples
Xenophyophores growing on the sediment can resemble carnations, roses, or lattices, and like corals in shallow water, their bodies create a unique habitat in the deep sea.
He purchased dozens of carnations in a variety of bright colors and paid for them with money he earned from dog-walking.
Most of the Mothers of Srebrenica have no living relatives to honor and love them on this day, or to bring them the traditional Bosnian Mother’s Day gift of a bunch of red carnations.
Justin, a 4-year-old West Highland terrier from Long Island, was having his face hair-sprayed into the shape of a carnation.
He was carrying himself with less than his usual stoop, he wore a red carnation in his buttonhole.
Cannot you see the lovely Adele fastening the carnation to the lapel so that papa may be gay upon the street?
In Major Ellison's buttonhole there was a carnation and a rosebud backed by a geranium leaf.
While I think of it, I'll draw in a little mite of this red into my carnation pink.
The lips too are figured out; but where's the carnation dew, the pouting ripeness that tempts the taste in the original?