Definitions for Carnation

Carnation car·na·tion

Spelling: [kahr-ney-shuh n]
IPA: /kɑrˈneɪ ʃən/

Carnation is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 381 anagrams from letters in Carnation (aacinnort).

Definitions for Carnation

noun

  1. any of numerous cultivated varieties of the clove pink, Dianthus caryophyllus, having long-stalked, fragrant, usually double flowers in a variety of colors: the state flower of Ohio.
  2. pink; light red.
  3. Obsolete. the color of flesh.

adjective

  1. having the color carnation.

Origin of Carnation

1525-35; Late Latin carnātiōn- (stem of carnātiō) fleshlikeness, hence flesh-color, equivalent to Latin carn- (stem of carō) flesh + -ātiōn- -ation

Examples for Carnation

Fig. 52 shows an oleander cutting at a, a carnation at b, and a geranium at c.

Then off she ran after her father, who had only changed one carnation for another.

Justin, a 4-year-old West Highland terrier from Long Island, was having his face hair-sprayed into the shape of a carnation.

Its colouring is pink like a carnation in a pale, suffused sort of way.

Jimmie Sullivan had clumped over to Aunt Jane, carrying his carnation.

No woman ever combined a carnation and a rosebud into a boutonniere.

Lily sits upon the settee by the piano and fastens the carnation in her dress.

The carnation derived its generic name from the latter source.

The carnation Maggot can be dug out of the heart of a plant with a needle.

May flushed a little, and put her hand consciously to the carnation at her throat.

Word Value for Carnation
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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