carnation
English
Etymology
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From Middle French carnation (“person's color or complexion”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
carnation (countable and uncountable, plural carnations)
- (botany) A type of Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its flowers.
- originally, Dianthus caryophyllus
- other members of genus Dianthus and hybrids
- The type of flower they bear, originally flesh-coloured, but since hybridizing found in a variety of colours.
- A rosy pink colour
- carnation:
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 6:
- And the women of New Bedford, they bloom like their own red roses. But roses only bloom in summer; whereas the fine carnation of their cheeks is perennial as sunlight in the seventh heavens.
- (archaic) The pinkish colors used in art to render human face and flesh
- carnation:
- A scarlet colour.
Synonyms
- (plant, flower): clove pink (also called gillyflower), (ancestor of the carnation) Dianthus caryophyllus
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Adjective
carnation (not comparable)
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See also
- (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermilion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine (Category: en:Reds)
- gypsophila
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French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French, possibly from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian carnagione (“flesh color”), either way from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "LL." is not valid. See WT:LOL. carnātiō (“fleshiness”) (from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin carō (“flesh”)), or from a corruption of coronation (from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin corōnāre (“to crown”), from corōna (“crown”)), because of the flower's use in chaplets or from the toothed crown-like look of the petals.
Pronunciation
Noun
carnation f (countable and uncountable, plural carnations)
- (uncountable) a fleshy pinkish color (not the color of a carnation flower)
- (countable) skin tone
- Synonym: teint
Further reading
- “carnation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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