Any of several plants of the genus Dianthus which have flowers with a spicy, sweet scent similar to that of cloves and are frequently cultivated…

The general name for the cultivated varieties of the clove-pink (Dianthus caryophyllus).

The clove pink, Dianthus caryophyllus. Cf. gillyflower, n. 2. Now chiefly historical.

The plant carnation, n.1 Obsolete.

Any of several varieties of pink (cf. pink, n.5 1); esp. sweet william, Dianthus barbatus. Now rare.

Any of various plants of the genus Dianthus (family Caryophyllaceae), which are typically low-growing with solitary flowers; spec. any of the…

A kind of pink (pink, n.5 1a). Frequently in plural. Also with distinguishing word, often describing the colour of the flower. Now only in sweet John…

a kind of pink, Dianthus plumarius, which has an eye-shaped marking on the corolla.

The clove-pink or gillyflower. Obsolete until revived in 20th cent.

A name for the narrower-leaved varieties of a species of pink, Dianthus barbatus, as distinguished from those called sweet-william, n.

A species of pink, Dianthus barbatus, cultivated in numerous varieties, bearing closely-clustered flowers of various shades of white and red…

a kind of gillyflower (? = pink) growing in tufts.

Old name of the Sweet William or a variety of it.

any of various plants of the genus Dianthus; = pink, n.5 1a.

A name for the Sweet William.

Used attributively in various special collocations. Sweet William = London pride, n. a.

= maiden pink n. at maiden, n. adj.compounds 1c.

Originally: any of various wild species of Dianthus or related genera of the family Caryophyllaceae. Later: any of various upland pinks, esp.…

= clove-pink n.

= musk carnation n.

The Sweet William, Dianthus barbatus, or a variety of it. Now dialect.

= London pride, n.

a Eurasian wild pink (scarce in Britain), Dianthus deltoides, found in dry, often sandy, pastures.

A perennial flowering pink, Dianthus chinensis; = China-pink n. at China, n.1 3e.

Dianthus hispanicus.

Any of various garden pinks having flowers with a dark centre. Chiefly attributive in pheasant's eye pink. Now rare or historical.

A kind of carnation with striped petals.

A name of a variety of carnation. (See quot. 1727.)

A florists' variety of the carnation, Dianthus caryophyllus, the flowers of which have a light ground with the petals marked or edged with a darker…

(a) a variety of dianthus; (b) the old man cactus.

A particoloured variety of carnation or garden dianthus. Obsolete.

= picotee, n.

Dianthus chinensis, a perennial flowering pink.

Short for clove-pink n. at compounds, or clove-gillyflower.

any wild species of Dianthus; in U.S. applied to Silene pennsylvanica and S. virginica (= ground pink n. at ground, n. compounds 2c).

The Childing Pink, Dianthus prolifer.

= matted sea lavender n.

a clove-scented species of pink (Dianthus Caryophyllus): see clove gillyflower, n.

A pink with solitary flowers of a pale rose colour (Dianthus cæsius), found on the limestone cliffs at Cheddar.

A genus of caryophyllaceous flowering plants, which includes the pinks and carnations; a flower of this kind.

a name for the sweet-william.

a variety of carnation with a long flowering season, usually grown in a cool greenhouse.

the Cheddar pink, Dianthus gratianopolitanus.

The maiden pink, Dianthus deltoides. rare.

the clove pink, Dianthus caryophyllus.

Horticulture. A carnation plant with single flowers, misrepresented as or bred from a named variety with double flowers. Now rare.

(see quot.).

Designating a variety of carnation with stiff massive growth and large double flowers.

A French variety of carnation (see quot. 1910).