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Meanings of Dianthus caryophyllus in English
Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors.
Synonyms
Examples for "carnation"
Examples for "carnation"
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No woman ever combined a carnation and a rosebud into a boutonniere.
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He reached out and plucked a green carnation from behind Truck's ear.
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It wasn't a rose, it wasn't a carnation, it wasn't a dahlia.
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Yes, that is what I smell, like a clove carnation-itis divine.
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She was a small, lantern-jawed woman with a carnation on her lapel.
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I might as well try to whiten a clove gillyflower!
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I'll get the seed of that mottled gillyflower from my mother as soon as possible.
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The profusion of sweet-peas, double poppies, bluebottles, stock gillyflower, and roses, I never saw equalled.
4
They no longer mentioned the gillyflower and the daffodil, but permitted themselves a general reference to Flora's vernal wreath.
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It has beautiful narrow garden strips in front,-solidpatches of colour in sweet gillyflower bushes, from which the kindly housewife plucked a nosegay for us.
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The clove pink was the ancestor of all the carnations.
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Must have something worrying him: he used to look as fresh as a clove pink.
3
Grace is a bluebell, Anne is a dear little clove pink, Nora is a whole bunch of violets and Jessica looks like a white narcissus.
4
An empty camphor vial on Richard's desk had always a clove pink, or a pansy, or a rose, stuck into it, according to the season.
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Clove pinks like your ma used to raise.
Usage of Dianthus caryophyllus in English
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Dianthus caryophyllus-crossed and self-fertilisedflowers yielded seeds as: 92.
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Dianthus caryophyllus (Caryophyllaceae).-Producesvery few capsules which contain any good seeds.
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Dianthus caryophyllus, garden variety.
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Dianthus caryophyllus: circumnutation of young leaf, traced from 10.15 P.M. June 13th to 10.35 P.M. 16th.
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Dianthus caryophyllus (third generation).
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Dianthus caryophyllus (First Generation).
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Dianthus caryophyllus (Second Generation).
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Dianthus caryophyllus-crossed and self-fertilisedflowers on the crossed and self-fertilisedplants of the 1st generation yielded seeds as: 65.
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Dianthus caryophyllus-theintercrossed plants are derived from self-fertilisedof the 3rd generation, crossed by intercrossed plants of the 3rd generation.
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Dianthus caryophyllus-plants spontaneously self-fertilisedunder a net; capsules on intercrossed and self-fertilisedplants of the 3rd generation contained seeds in number: 125.
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Dianthus caryophyllus-flowers on self-fertilisedplants of the 3rd generation crossed by intercrossed plants, and other flowers again self-fertilisedyielded seeds as: 97.
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Dianthus caryophyllus-flowers on self-fertilisedplants of the 3rd generation crossed by a fresh stock, and other flowers again self-fertilisedyielded seeds as: 127.
Translations for Dianthus caryophyllus
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