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Look up: Carnation

  1. Carnation
    (Dianthus) This group of hardy plants includes Pinks, Carnations and Sweet Williams. The Carnation is the descendent of D. Caryophyllus; it grows wild in southern Europe. D. barbatus, the Sweet William, is found wild in the Mediterranean region. The Pinks have mainly come from D. plumarius. The Chin...
    Found on http://www.botany.com/dianthus.html

  2. carnation
    [adj] - having the color of a carnation 2. [n] - Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers 3. [n] - a pink or reddish-pink color
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Carnation
    Car·na'tion noun [ French carnation the flesh tints in a painting, It carnagione , from Latin carnatio fleshiness, from caro , carnis , flesh. See Carnal .] 1. The natural color of flesh; rosy pink. &...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/27

  4. carnation
    adjective pink or pinkish
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  5. carnation
    noun a pink or reddish-pink color
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  6. carnation
    clove pink noun Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  7. Carnation
    • (n.) A species of Dianthus (D. Caryophyllus) or pink, having very beautiful flowers of various colors, esp. white and usually a rich, spicy scent. • (n.) The natural color of flesh; rosy pink. • (n.) Those parts of a picture in which the human body or any part of it is represented i...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  8. carnation
    (Dianthus caryophyllus), herbaceous plant of the pink, or carnation, family (Caryophyllaceae), native to the Mediterranean area. It is widely ... [1 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/26

  9. Carnation
    Carnation is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `Carnation Flower` The name Carnation doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Carnation seems to be unique!
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/girls/Car

  10. carnation
    carnation: see pink.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A09114

  11. Carnation
    In the fine arts, carnation describes the colour of flesh and as such the parts of a picture which are naked or without drapery, exhibiting the natural colour of the flesh.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  12. Carnation
    The carnation (Dianthus) is a hardy perennial plant of the family Caryophyllaceae. Also known as the clove-pink.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  13. carnation
    Any of a large number of double-flowered cultivated varieties of a plant belonging to the pink family. The flowers smell like cloves; they are divided into flake, bizarre, and picotees, according to whether the petals have one or more colours on their white base, have the colour appearing in strips, or have a coloured border to the petals. ...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  14. Carnation
    (brand) `Carnation` is a brand of food products. The brand was especially known for its evaporated milk product created in 1899, then called `Carnation Sterilized Cream`<ref name="historylink-carnation">http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1608 ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnation

  15. Carnation
    (heraldry) In heraldry, `carnation` is a tincture, the colour of European/Caucasian human skin (i.e., pale pinkish peach). It is not used at all often in the Anglophone heraldries but quite frequent on the continent, in France in particular, derived from widespread use in German heraldry. In ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnation



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On 10th February 1996, a computer, Deep Blue, beat Russian Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess player on the planet, and mankind’s place in the order of things was reshuffled. The match immediately became an iconic symbol of the advances made in artificial intelligence and supercomputing. Kasparov has since retired, like Deep Blue, which now resides in a museum. He has become a vocal advocate for democracy in today’s Russia. read more

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