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DIANTHUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Dianthus mean?
• DIANTHUS (noun)
The noun DIANTHUS has 1 sense:
1. carnations and pinks
Familiarity information: DIANTHUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Carnations and pinks
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Dianthus; genus Dianthus
Hypernyms ("Dianthus" is a kind of...):
caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)
Meronyms (members of "Dianthus"):
garden pink; pink (any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers)
Holonyms ("Dianthus" is a member of...):
carnation family; Caryophyllaceae; family Caryophyllaceae; pink family (large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes))
Context examples
The oil extracted from the flowers of Dianthus caryophyllus.
(Dianthus caryophyllus Flower Oil, NCI Thesaurus)
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