carnation
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Middle French carnation (“person's color or complexion”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]carnation (countable and uncountable, plural carnations)
- (botany) A type of Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its flowers.
- originally, Dianthus caryophyllus
- other members of genus Dianthus and hybrids
- The type of flower they bear, originally flesh-coloured, but since hybridizing found in a variety of colours.
- A rosy pink colour
- carnation:
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 6:
- And the women of New Bedford, they bloom like their own red roses. But roses only bloom in summer; whereas the fine carnation of their cheeks is perennial as sunlight in the seventh heavens.
- (archaic) The pinkish colors used in art to render human face and flesh
- carnation:
- A scarlet colour.
Synonyms
[edit]- (plant, flower): clove pink (also called gillyflower), (ancestor of the carnation) Dianthus caryophyllus
- (plant, flower): cottage pink, Dianthus plumarius
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]plant
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flower
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rosy pink colour
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Adjective
[edit]carnation (not comparable)
Translations
[edit]colour
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See also
[edit]- blood red
- brick red
- burgundy
- cardinal
- carmine
- carnation
- cerise
- cherry
- cherry red
- Chinese red
- cinnabar
- claret
- crimson
- damask
- fire brick
- fire engine red
- flame
- flamingo
- fuchsia
- garnet
- geranium
- gules
- hot pink
- incarnadine
- Indian red
- magenta
- maroon
- misty rose
- nacarat
- oxblood
- pillar-box red
- pink
- Pompeian red
- poppy
- raspberry
- red violet
- rose
- rouge
- ruby
- ruddy
- salmon
- sanguine
- scarlet
- shocking pink
- stammel
- strawberry
- Turkey red
- Venetian red
- vermilion
- vinaceous
- vinous
- violet red
- wine
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French, possibly from Italian carnagione (“flesh color”), either way from Late Latin carnātiōnem (“fleshiness”) (from Latin carō (“flesh”)), or from a corruption of coronation (from Latin corōnāre (“to crown”), from corōna (“crown”)), because of the flower's use in chaplets or from the toothed crown-like look of the petals.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]carnation f (countable and uncountable, plural carnations)
- (uncountable) a fleshy pinkish color (not the color of a carnation flower)
- (countable) skin tone
- Synonym: teint
Further reading
[edit]- “carnation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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