Gillyflower

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  • noun. Any of several plants having fragrant flowers, especially the carnation, stock, or wallflower.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The clove-pink or carnation, Dianthus Caryophyllus, especially one of the smaller varieties.
  • noun. The Cheiranthus Cheiri. This is the plant which now usually bears the name, distinguished as the wall-gillyflower. See Cheiranthus.
  • noun. The wallflower, Matthiola incana, distinguished as the stock-gillyflower, but more frequently known as the stock.
  • noun. A name of several other plants, as the cuckoo- or marsh-gillyflower, Lychnis Flos-cuculi; the feathered gillyflower, Dianthus plumarius; the queen′ s, rogue′ s, or winter gillyflower, Hesperis matronalis; the sea-gillyflower, Armeria vulgaris; and the water-gillyflower, Hottonia palustris.
  • noun. The gillyflower-apple.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A kind of apple, of a roundish conical shape, purplish red color, and having a large core.
  • noun. the clove pink.
  • noun. the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos-cuculi).
  • noun. damewort.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. the thrift (Armeria vulgaris).
  • noun. the wallflower (Cheiranthus Cheiri).
  • noun. the water violet.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. clove pink
  • noun. Any clove-scented flower.
  • noun. A variety of apple.
  • noun. A stylized representation of a carnation blossom, usually red, and shown with or without a slip and leaves.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers
  • noun. Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors
  • Word Usage
    "Add lesser quantities (the recipe says a denier) of the following spices: galingale, cloves (no more than 1/2 teaspoon, I suggest), gillyflower (if you can get it, which I have never succeeded in doing), long pepper (Asian groceries have this, sometimes), nutmeg, cardamon, mace."
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    garden pink  pink  
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    carnation  pink