ROSE PINK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rose pink mean? 

• ROSE PINK (noun)
  The noun ROSE PINK has 1 sense:

1. any of several pink-flowered marsh plant of the eastern United States resembling a true centaury

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROSE PINK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several pink-flowered marsh plant of the eastern United States resembling a true centaury

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

American centaury; bitter floom; marsh pink; rose pink; Sabbatia Angularis; Sabbatia stellaris

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

sabbatia (any of various plants of the genus Sabbatia having usually pink cymose flowers; occur from acid bogs to brackish marshes)

 Context examples 

The schiff's reagent selectively stains the aldehydes to a rose pink color.

(Periodic Acid Schiff Staining Method, NCI Thesaurus)