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garden pink

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pink \Pink\, n. [Perh. akin to pick; as if the edges of the
   petals were picked out. Cf. {Pink}, v. t.]
   1. (Bot.) A name given to several plants of the
      caryophyllaceous genus {Dianthus}, and to their flowers,
      which are sometimes very fragrant and often double in
      cultivated varieties. The species are mostly perennial
      herbs, with opposite linear leaves, and handsome
      five-petaled flowers with a tubular calyx.

   2. A color resulting from the combination of a pure vivid red
      with more or less white; -- so called from the common
      color of the flower. --Dryden.

   3. Anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection
      of something. ``The very pink of courtesy.'' --Shak.

   4. (Zo["o]l.) The European minnow; -- so called from the
      color of its abdomen in summer. [Prov. Eng.]

   {Bunch pink} is {Dianthus barbatus}.

   {China}, or {Indian}, {pink}. See under {China}.

   {Clove pink} is {Dianthus Caryophyllus}, the stock from which
      carnations are derived.

   {Garden pink}. See {Pheasant's eye}.

   {Meadow pink} is applied to {Dianthus deltoides}; also, to
      the ragged robin.

   {Maiden pink}, {Dianthus deltoides}.

   {Moss pink}. See under {Moss}.

   {Pink needle}, the pin grass; -- so called from the long,
      tapering points of the carpels. See {Alfilaria}.

   {Sea pink}. See {Thrift}.

资料来源 : WordNet®

garden pink
     n : any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus
         cultivated for their fragrant flowers [syn: {pink}]
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