Definition of carnation Carnation

/kɑɹnejˈʃʌn/ - [karneyshun] - car•na•tion

We found 18 definitions of carnation from 7 different sources.

What does carnation mean?

Noun Plural: carnations
carnation - a pink or reddish-pink color
		pink a light shade of red
carnation - Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors
		clove pink, gillyflower, Dianthus caryophyllus
		garden pink, pink a light shade of red
Adjective
carnation - pink or pinkish
		chromatic being or having or characterized by hue

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carnation (Noun)
A type of Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its flowers.
carnation (Noun)
Originally.
carnation (Noun)
Other members of genus Dianthus and hybrids.
carnation (Noun)
The type of flower they bear, originally flesh-coloured, but since hybridizing found in a variety of colours.
carnation (Noun)
A rosy pink colour.
carnation (Noun)
The pinkish colors used in art to render human face and flesh.
carnation (Noun)
Sometimes, a scarlet colour.
carnation (Adjective)
Of a rosy pink or red colour, like human flesh.

carnation (n.)
The natural color of flesh; rosy pink.
carnation (n.)
Those parts of a picture in which the human body or any part of it is represented in full color; the flesh tints.
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.

carnation
kar-nā′shun, n. flesh-colour: one of the finest of florists' flowers, a double-flowering variety of the clove pink, and existing only in a state of cultivation.—adj. Carnā′tioned, having a flesh-like colour. [L. carnatio, fleshiness.]