1) Carnation genus 2) Caryophylloid dicot genus 3) Genus dianthus 4) Plant of the pink family
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The species are mostly herbaceous perennials, a few are annual or biennial, and some are low subshrubs with woody basal stems. The leaves are opposite, simple, mostly linear and often strongly glaucous grey-green to blue-green. The flowers have five petals, typically with a frilled or pinked margin, and are (in almost all species) pale to dark pin...
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• (n.) A genus of plants containing some of the most popular of cultivated flowers, including the pink, carnation, and Sweet William.
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plant genus of the pink family. See pink.
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(Carnation, Dianthus, Gillyflower, Pink, Sweet William) 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 Chinese a...
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Di·an'thus noun [ New Latin , from Greek ..., gen. ..., Zeus +
'a`nqos flower.]
(Botany) A genus of plants containing some of the most popular of cultivated flowers, including the pink, carnation, and Sweet William.
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Dianthus is the carnation genus of Caryophyllaceae distinguished by the presence of scales outside the calyx, by the grouping of the sepals into a tube and other characteristics.
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[
n] - carnations and pinks
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genus Dianthus noun carnations and pinks
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any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Dianthus, of the pink family, as the carnation or sweet william.
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