noun
Usage: sometimes capitalized S & often capitalized W
Etymology: william from the name William
1.
a. : a widely cultivated Eurasian pink ( Dianthus barbatus ) with small white to deep red or sometimes purple flowers that are often showily spotted, banded, or mottled and are borne in rather large flat bracteate heads at the end of erect stalks
b. : button pink
2. : any of several sharks of Pacific and southern seas having rank inedible flesh
3. : a deep pink that is bluer and lighter than average coral (sense 3b), bluer and less strong than fiesta, and yellower and less strong than begonia
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