Clove pink

clove pink
    n 1: Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented
         usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties
         and many colors [syn: {carnation}, {clove pink},
         {gillyflower}, {Dianthus caryophyllus}]
    

Pink \Pink\, n. [Perh. akin to pick; as if the edges of the
   petals were picked out. Cf. {Pink}, v. t.]
   1. (Bot.) A name given to several plants of the
      caryophyllaceous genus {Dianthus}, and to their flowers,
      which are sometimes very fragrant and often double in
      cultivated varieties. The species are mostly perennial
      herbs, with opposite linear leaves, and handsome
      five-petaled flowers with a tubular calyx.
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   2. A color resulting from the combination of a pure vivid red
      with more or less white; -- so called from the common
      color of the flower. --Dryden.
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   3. Anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection
      of something. "The very pink of courtesy." --Shak.
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   4. (Zool.) The European minnow; -- so called from the color
      of its abdomen in summer. [Prov. Eng.]
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   {Bunch pink} is {Dianthus barbatus}.

   {China pink}, or {Indian pink}. See under {China}.

   {Clove pink} is {Dianthus Caryophyllus}, the stock from which
      carnations are derived.

   {Garden pink}. See {Pheasant's eye}.

   {Meadow pink} is applied to {Dianthus deltoides}; also, to
      the ragged robin.

   {Maiden pink}, {Dianthus deltoides}.

   {Moss pink}. See under {Moss}.

   {Pink needle}, the pin grass; -- so called from the long,
      tapering points of the carpels. See {Alfilaria}.

   {Sea pink}. See {Thrift}.
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Clove \Clove\, n. [OE. clow, fr. F. clou nail, clou de girofle a
   clove, lit. nail of clove, fr. L. clavus nail, perh. akin to
   clavis key, E. clavicle. The clove was so called from its
   resemblance to a nail. So in D. kruidnagel clove, lit.
   herb-nail or spice-nail. Cf. {Cloy}.]
   A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of
   the clove tree ({Eugenia aromatica} syn. {Caryophullus
   aromatica}), a native of the Molucca Isles.
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   {Clove camphor}. (Chem.) See {Eugenin}.

   {Clove gillyflower}, {Clove pink} (Bot.), any fragrant
      self-colored carnation.
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