GARDEN PINK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does garden pink mean? 

• GARDEN PINK (noun)
  The noun GARDEN PINK has 1 sense:

1. any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers

  Familiarity information: GARDEN PINK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GARDEN PINK (noun)

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Meaning:

Any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

garden pink; pink

Hypernyms ("garden pink" is a kind of...):

flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "garden pink"):

Dianthus barbatus; sweet William (Eurasian pink widely cultivated for its flat-topped dense clusters of varicolored flowers)

carnation; clove pink; Dianthus caryophyllus; gillyflower (Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors)

china pink; Dianthus chinensis; rainbow pink (Chinese pink with deeply toothed rose-lilac flowers with a purplish eye; usually raised as an annual)

Dianthus deltoides; maiden pink (low-growing loosely mat-forming Eurasian pink with a single pale pink flower with a crimson center)

cheddar pink; Diangus gratianopolitanus (mat-forming perennial of central Europe with large fragrant pink or red flowers)

button pink; Dianthus latifolius (much-branched pink with flowers in clusters; closely related to sweet William)

cottage pink; Dianthus plumarius; grass pink (European pink cultivated for its very fragrant pink or rosy flowers)

Dianthus supurbus; fringed pink (Eurasian perennial pink having fragrant lilac or rose flowers with deeply fringed margins)

Holonyms ("garden pink" is a member of...):

Dianthus; genus Dianthus (carnations and pinks)