GILLYFLOWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gillyflower mean? 

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

1. any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers

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

  Familiarity information: GILLYFLOWER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GILLYFLOWER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

gillyflower; stock

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

flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

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

brompton stock; Matthiola incana (European plant with racemes of sweet-scented flowers; widely cultivated as an ornamental)

Holonyms ("gillyflower" is a member of...):

genus Matthiola; Matthiola (genus of Old World plants grown as ornamentals)

Sense 2

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 ("gillyflower" is a kind of...):

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