carnation
nounEtymology
From Middle French carnation (“flesh color, complexion”), either via Italian carnagione (“flesh color”) or directly from Late Latin carnātiō (“fleshiness”), from Latin carō (“flesh, meat”) + ātiō (“-ation”). As a flower and its color, possibly instead from corruption in French of coronation (“crowning, crowned thing”) under the influence of carnation, from the flower's supposed resemblance to a crown. By surface analysis, Latin carn- + -ate + -ion.
- derived from carō
- derived from carnātiō
- derived from carnagione
- derived from carnation
Definitions
A type of Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its flowers.
The type of flower they bear, originally flesh-coloured, but since hybridizing found in a…
The type of flower they bear, originally flesh-coloured, but since hybridizing found in a variety of colours.
A rosy pink colour
- And the women of New Bedford, they bloom like their own red roses. But roses only bloom in summer; whereas the fine carnation of their cheeks is perennial as sunlight in the seventh heavens.
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The pinkish colors used in art to render human face and flesh
A scarlet colour.
Of a rosy pink or red colour.
Of a human flesh color.
The neighborhood
- neighborcarnal
- neighborcarnassial
- neighborcarnify
- neighborcarnival
- neighborcarnivore
- neighborcarnosity
- neighborincarnadine
- neighborincarnate
- neighborgypsophila
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at carnation. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at carnation. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at carnation
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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