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Dianthus   Listen
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Dianthus  n.  (Bot.) A genus of plants containing some of the most popular of cultivated flowers, including the pink, carnation, and Sweet William.





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"Dianthus" Quotes from Famous Books



... translate "violet" was in truth an iris) represented to the Greek the first coming of the breath of life on the renewed herbage; and became in his thoughts the true embroidery of the saffron robe of Athena. Later in the year, the dianthus (which, though belonging to an entirely different race of plants, has yet a strange look of being made out of the grasses by turning the sheath-membrane at the root of their leaves into a flower) seems ...
— The Queen of the Air • John Ruskin


Words linked to "Dianthus" :   Dianthus barbatus, garden pink, Dianthus chinensis, family Caryophyllaceae, Dianthus latifolius, Dianthus plumarius, pink family, Dianthus supurbus, pink, Dianthus deltoides, carnation family, Dianthus caryophyllus


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