noun
Chinese pink with deeply toothed rose-lilac flowers with a purplish eye; usually raised as an annual
• Syn: ↑rainbow pink, ↑Dianthus chinensis
• Hypernyms: ↑pink, ↑garden pink
• Hyponyms: ↑Japanese pink, ↑Dianthus chinensis heddewigii
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nounUsage: usually capitalized C
: a biennial or short-lived perennial pink (Dianthus chinensis) often grown as an annual and having little or no basal branching, stiff stems, and usually whitish or rosy lilac flowers often with a purplish eye — called also rainbow pink; see japanese pink
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China pink,
a frequently cultivated pink native to eastern Asia, bearing rosy, scentless flowers with toothed petals.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.