CARNATION


Meaning of CARNATION in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ kär-ˈnā-shən ]

noun

Etymology: Middle French, from Old Italian carnagione, from carne flesh, from Latin carn-, caro

Date: circa 1535

1.

a.

(1) : the variable color of human flesh

(2) : a pale to grayish yellow

b. : a moderate red

2. : a plant of any of numerous often cultivated and usually double-flowered varieties or subspecies of an Old World pink ( Dianthus caryophyllus ) originally flesh-colored but now found in many color variations

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.