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Meanings of clove pink 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"
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.
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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
Dianthus caryophyllus-crossed and self-fertilisedflowers yielded seeds as: 92.
2
Dianthus caryophyllus (Caryophyllaceae).-Producesvery few capsules which contain any good seeds.
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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.
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Dianthus caryophyllus (third generation).
Usage of clove pink in English
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.
6
Out of the doorway fluttered a brilliant vision, all blue and white like the great butterflies hovering over the clove pinks.
7
We could have ordered American Beauties from New York every day for what our hollyhocks and clove pinks and common annuals cost us.
8
"Mistress Betty, I salute you," said Geoffrey Yorke, bowing low, "and may I also beg your acceptance of a bunch of clove pinks?