DIANTHUS CARYOPHYLLUS

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

carnation; clove pink; Dianthus caryophyllus; gillyflower

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Dianthus caryophyllus" is a kind of...):

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

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