carnation

4 definitions found

carnation - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Carnation \Car*na"tion\, n. [F. carnation the flesh tints in a
     painting, It carnagione, fr. L. carnatio fleshiness, fr.
     caro, carnis, flesh. See Carnal.]
     1. The natural color of flesh; rosy pink.
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              Her complexion of the delicate carnation. --Ld.
                                                    Lytton.
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     2. pl. (Paint.) Those parts of a picture in which the human
        body or any part of it is represented in full color; the
        flesh tints.
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              The flesh tints in painting are termed carnations.
                                                    --Fairholt.
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     3. (Bot.) A species of Dianthus (Dianthus Caryophyllus)
        or pink, having very beautiful flowers of various colors,
        esp. white and usually a rich, spicy scent.
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  colorful \colorful\ adj.
     1. having striking color. Opposite of colorless.
  
     Note: [Narrower terms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot
           ; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing;
           prismatic; psychedelic; red, ruddy, flushed, empurpled
           ]
  
     Syn: colourful.
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     2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless
        or dull. [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious;
        flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; flashy, gaudy,  jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty
        ; picturesque]
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     3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey;
        as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and
        monochrome.
  
     Note: [Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; amber, brownish-yellow, yellow-brown
           ; amethyst; auburn, reddish-brown
           ; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden;
           azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; bicolor, bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome
           ; blue, bluish, light-blue, dark-blue
           ; blushful, blush-colored, rosy
           ; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy;
           brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; canary, canary-yellow
           ; caramel, caramel brown; carnation;
           chartreuse; chestnut; dun; earth-colored, earthlike
           ; fuscous; green, greenish, light-green, dark-green
           ; jade, jade-green; khaki; lavender, lilac
           ; mauve; moss green, mosstone; motley, multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured
                               ; mousy, mouse-colored;
           ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive;
           orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish;
           purple, violet, purplish; red, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet
                     ; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red;
           rust, rusty, rust-colored; snuff, snuff-brown, snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored, snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown
                     ; sorrel, brownish-orange
           ; stone, stone-gray; straw-color, straw-colored, straw-coloured
           ; tan; tangerine;
           tawny; ultramarine; umber; vermilion, vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red
           ; yellow, yellowish;
           yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; blae bluish-black or gray-blue)
           ; coral; creamy; cress green, cresson, watercress
           ; hazel; honey, honey-colored
           ; hued(postnominal); magenta;
           maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green;
           sea-green] [Also See: chromatic, colored, dark,
           light.]
  
     Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).
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carnation - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  carnation
      adj 1: pink or pinkish
      n 1: 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]
      2: a pink or reddish-pink color

carnation - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Carnation, WA (city, FIPS 10215)
    Location: 47.64614 N, 121.90925 W
    Population (1990): 1243 (452 housing units)
    Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 98014