CARNATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carnation mean? 

• CARNATION (noun)
  The noun CARNATION has 2 senses:

1. Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors

2. a pink or reddish-pink color

  Familiarity information: CARNATION used as a noun is rare.

• CARNATION (adjective)
  The adjective CARNATION has 1 sense:

1. pink or pinkish

  Familiarity information: CARNATION used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARNATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

carnation; clove pink; Dianthus caryophyllus; gillyflower

Hypernyms ("carnation" is a kind of...):

garden pink; pink (any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers)

Derivation:

carnation (pink or pinkish)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A pink or reddish-pink color

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("carnation" is a kind of...):

pink (a light shade of red)

Derivation:

carnation (pink or pinkish)

• CARNATION (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pink or pinkish

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

Derivation:

carnation (a pink or reddish-pink color)

carnation (Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors)

 Context examples 

Carnation flower oil is used as a fragrance component.

(Dianthus caryophyllus Flower Oil, NCI Thesaurus)