# carnation
## English
### Etymology

From Middle French carnation (“person's color or complexion”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /kɑːˈneɪ.ʃən/
* (US) IPA: /kɑɹˈneɪ.ʃən/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪʃən

### Noun

carnation (countable and uncountable, plural carnations)
* (botany) A type of Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its flowers.
** originally, Dianthus caryophyllus
** other members of genus Dianthus and hybrids
* The type of flower they bear, originally flesh-coloured, but since hybridizing found in a variety of colours.
* A rosy pink colour
    carnation:
** 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 6:And the women of New Bedford, they bloom like their own red roses. But roses only bloom in summer; whereas the fine carnation of their cheeks is perennial as sunlight in the seventh heavens.
* (archaic) The pinkish colors used in art to render human face and flesh
    carnation:
* A scarlet colour.

#### Synonyms

* (plant, flower): clove pink (also called gillyflower), (ancestor of the carnation) Dianthus caryophyllus
* (plant, flower): cottage pink, Dianthus plumarius

#### Derived terms

* carnationed
* carnation-grass
* carnationist
* sea carnation

#### Related terms

* carnal
* carnassial
* carnify
* carnival
* carnivore
* carnosity
* incarnadine
* incarnate

#### Translations

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### Adjective

carnation (not comparable)
* Of a rosy pink or red colour.
* (archaic) Of a human flesh color.

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#### See also

* blood red
* brick red
* burgundy
* cardinal
* carmine
* carnation
* cerise
* cherry
* cherry red
* Chinese red
* cinnabar
* claret
* crimson
* damask
* fire brick
* fire engine red
* flame
* flamingo
* fuchsia
* garnet
* geranium
* gules
* hot pink
* incarnadine
* Indian red
* magenta
* maroon
* misty rose
* nacarat
* oxblood
* pillar-box red
* pink
* Pompeian red
* poppy
* raspberry
* red violet
* rose
* rouge
* ruby
* ruddy
* salmon
* sanguine
* scarlet
* shocking pink
* stammel
* strawberry
* Turkey red
* Venetian red
* vermilion
* vinaceous
* vinous
* violet red
* wine
* gypsophila

### Anagrams

* Cantorian, Carnotian

## French
### Etymology

From Middle French, possibly from Italian carnagione (“flesh color”), either way from Late Latin carnātiōnem (“fleshiness”) (from Latin carō (“flesh”)), or from a corruption of coronation (from Latin corōnāre (“to crown”), from corōna (“crown”)), because of the flower's use in chaplets or from the toothed crown-like look of the petals.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaʁ.na.sjɔ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

carnation f (countable and uncountable, plural carnations)
* (uncountable) a fleshy pinkish color (not the color of a carnation flower)
* (countable) skin tone
    Synonym: teint

### Further reading

* “carnation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* connaitra, connaîtra