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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