clove pinkとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

clove (“spice”) +‎ pink (“flower”)

名詞

clove pink (複数形 clove pinks)

1. A plant with clove-scented flowers, Dianthus caryophyllus, formerly used as a flavoring and for fragrance. The ancestor of the carnation.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 24531354, page 8:

     ...while the bed of the rich crimson clove pink was like one of the spice islands, the very Manilla of the garden.

2. The flower of this plant.

同意語

• gillyflower

名詞

clovepink (複数形 clovepinks)

1. Dianthus caryophyllus, a flowering plant.