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Meanings of carnation 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 "gillyflower"
Examples for "gillyflower"
1
I might as well try to whiten a clove gillyflower!
2
I'll get the seed of that mottled gillyflower from my mother as soon as possible.
3
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.
5
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.
1
The clove pink was the ancestor of all the carnations.
2
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.
5
Clove pinks like your ma used to raise.
1
Dianthus caryophyllus-crossed and self-fertilisedflowers yielded seeds as: 92.
2
Dianthus caryophyllus (Caryophyllaceae).-Producesvery few capsules which contain any good seeds.
3
Dianthus caryophyllus, garden variety.
4
Dianthus caryophyllus: circumnutation of young leaf, traced from 10.15 P.M. June 13th to 10.35 P.M. 16th.
5
Dianthus caryophyllus (third generation).
Usage of carnation in English
1
No woman ever combined a carnation and a rosebud into a boutonniere.
2
He reached out and plucked a green carnation from behind Truck's ear.
3
It wasn't a rose, it wasn't a carnation, it wasn't a dahlia.
4
Yes, that is what I smell, like a clove carnation-itis divine.
5
She was a small, lantern-jawed woman with a carnation on her lapel.
6
She was pink and white like a carnation, and heavy with scent.
7
You think I ought to start wearing a carnation to work?
8
In his mouth was a cigarette, and in his buttonhole a pink carnation.
9
His bow was but a repetition of the scandalous red carnation.
10
His bow was like a repetition of the scandalous red carnation.
11
He was admired for wearing a carnation and changing his tie every night.
12
The second day he only wore a pink carnation and a grey waistcoat.
13
And Sidney went upstairs and put away a single white carnation very carefully.
14
A leaf hanging from one of the carnation stems suddenly dropped.
15
She had no startling brilliancy of beauty, no pearly whiteness, no radiant carnation.
16
Margot giggled again and flung a carnation across the table at old Lampert.
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Translations for carnation
Russian
Catalan
Carnation through the time
Carnation across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common