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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The bunch-pink, Dianthus barbatus, a garden flower, hardy and of vigorous growth, bearing in close clusters a profusion of brightly and variously colored flowers, generally party-colored in zones. Compare
sweet-john . - noun The Deptford pink, or sweet-william catchfly, Dianthus Armeria. See
pink . - noun See
Lychnis . - noun The goldfinch, Carduelis elegans.
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- noun A flowering plant,
Dianthus barbatus , in the familyCaryophyllaceae , native to the mountains of southern Europe from the Pyrenees east to the Carpathians and the Balkans.
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- noun Eurasian pink widely cultivated for its flat-topped dense clusters of varicolored flowers
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reesetee commented on the word sweet william
Nickname for European Goldfinch.
March 22, 2009