DIANTHUS CHINENSIS

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Meaning:

Chinese pink with deeply toothed rose-lilac flowers with a purplish eye; usually raised as an annual

Synonyms:

china pink; Dianthus chinensis; rainbow pink

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

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

Dianthus chinensis heddewigii; Japanese pink (a flowering variety of China pink distinguished by jagged-edged petals)

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