'Gillyflower' definitions:
Definition of 'gillyflower'
(from WordNet)
noun
Any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers [syn: stock, gillyflower]
noun
Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors [syn: carnation, clove pink, gillyflower, Dianthus caryophyllus]
Definition of 'Gillyflower'
From: GCIDE
- Gillyflower \Gil"ly*flow`er\, n. [OE. gilofre, gilofer, clove, OF. girofre, girofle, F. girofle: cf. F. girofl['e]e gillyflower, fr. girofle, Gr. ? clove tree; ? nut + ? leaf, akin to E. foliage. Cf. Caryophyllus, July-flower.] [Written also gilliflower.] (Bot.)
- 1. A name given by old writers to the clove pink ({Dianthus Caryophyllus}) but now to the common stock ({Matthiola incana}), a cruciferous plant with showy and fragrant blossoms, usually purplish, but often pink or white. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A kind of apple, of a roundish conical shape, purplish red color, and having a large core.
- Clove gillyflower, the clove pink.
- Marsh gillyflower, the ragged robin ({Lychnis Flos-cuculi}).
- Queen's gillyflower, or Winter gillyflower, damewort.
- Sea gillyflower, the thrift (Armeria vulgaris).
- Wall gillyflower, the wallflower (Cheiranthus Cheiri).
- Water gillyflower, the water violet. [1913 Webster]