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CHINA PINK
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Chinese pink with deeply toothed rose-lilac flowers with a purplish eye; usually raised as an annual
Synonyms:
china pink; Dianthus chinensis; rainbow pink
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("china pink" is a kind of...):
garden pink; pink (any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "china pink"):
Dianthus chinensis heddewigii; Japanese pink (a flowering variety of China pink distinguished by jagged-edged petals)