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garden pink

DEFINITIONS OF: garden pink

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

Synonyms:
pink
Types:
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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:
flower
a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms
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