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- a double-flowered cultivated variety of clove pink, with grey-green leaves and showy pink, white, or red flowers麝香石竹, 康乃馨。
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- Dianthus caryophyllus, family Caryophyllaceae: many cultivars.拉丁名Dianthus caryophyllus,石竹科：多种栽培品种。
词源
late 16th cent.: perhaps based on a misreading of Arabic ḳaranful 'clove or clove pink', from Greek karyophyllon. The early forms suggest confusion with CARNATION2, with incarnation, and with coronation.