pink

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: pink

1	adj n	of a light shade of red a light shade of red
2	n	any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers
3	n	a person with mildly leftist political views
4	v	make light, repeated taps on a surface
5	v	sound like a car engine that is firing too early

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: pink

Types:: show 7 types...; hide 7 types...; pinkness
the quality of being pink; carnation
a pink or reddish-pink color; rose, rosiness
a dusty pink color; purplish pink, solferino
a pink dye that was discovered in 1859, the year a battle was fought at Solferino; apricot, peach, salmon pink, yellowish pink
a shade of pink tinged with yellow; coral
a variable color averaging a deep pink; old rose
a greyish-pink color

Type of:: chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
a color that has hue

Types:: show 9 types...; hide 9 types...; Dianthus barbatus, sweet William
Eurasian pink widely cultivated for its flat-topped dense clusters of varicolored flowers; Dianthus caryophyllus, carnation, clove pink, gillyflower
Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors; Dianthus chinensis, china pink, 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; Diangus gratianopolitanus, cheddar pink
mat-forming perennial of central Europe with large fragrant pink or red flowers; Dianthus latifolius, button pink
much-branched pink with flowers in clusters; closely related to sweet William; Dianthus plumarius, cottage pink, 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; Dianthus chinensis heddewigii, Japanese pink
a flowering variety of China pink distinguished by jagged-edged petals

Type of:: collectivist, left-winger, leftist
a person who belongs to the political left

“The car pinked when the ignition was too far retarded”

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