Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A variety of pink the flowers of which smell like cloves.
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- noun botany A plant with clove-scented flowers, Dianthus caryophyllus, formerly used as a flavoring and for fragrance. The ancestor of the
carnation . - noun The flower of this plant
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- noun Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors
Etymologies
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clove (the spice) + pink (the flower)
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