Carnation



GRE

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n.康乃馨 ( 一种花)
• ［记］ carn ( 肉) +ation, 康乃馨颜色为淡红色 ( 肉色)

Webster Collegiate

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

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