■ noun a double-flowered cultivated variety of clove pink, with grey-green leaves and showy pink, white, or red flowers.
Origin
C16 (also in sense 'flesh colour'): perh. based on a misreading of Arab. ḳaranful 'clove or clove pink', influenced by Fr. ~ 'flesh colour or rosy pink', based on L. caro , carn- 'flesh'.