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CHINA PINK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does china pink mean? 

CHINA PINK (noun)
  The noun CHINA PINK has 1 sense:

1. Chinese pink with deeply toothed rose-lilac flowers with a purplish eye; usually raised as an annualplay

  Familiarity information: CHINA PINK used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CHINA PINK (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Chinese pink with deeply toothed rose-lilac flowers with a purplish eye; usually raised as an annual

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

china pink; Dianthus chinensis; rainbow pink

Hypernyms ("china pink" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "china pink"):

Dianthus chinensis heddewigii; Japanese pink (a flowering variety of China pink distinguished by jagged-edged petals)


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