carnation
    adj 1: pink or pinkish
    n 1: Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented
         usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties
         and many colors [syn: carnation, clove pink,
         gillyflower, Dianthus caryophyllus]
    2: a pink or reddish-pink color

Carnation \Car*na"tion\, n. [F. carnation the flesh tints in a
   painting, It carnagione, fr. L. carnatio fleshiness, fr.
   caro, carnis, flesh. See Carnal.]
   1. The natural color of flesh; rosy pink.
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            Her complexion of the delicate carnation. --Ld.
                                                  Lytton.
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   2. pl. (Paint.) Those parts of a picture in which the human
      body or any part of it is represented in full color; the
      flesh tints.
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            The flesh tints in painting are termed carnations.
                                                  --Fairholt.
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   3. (Bot.) A species of Dianthus (Dianthus Caryophyllus)
      or pink, having very beautiful flowers of various colors,
      esp. white and usually a rich, spicy scent.
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colorful \colorful\ adj.
   1. having striking color. Opposite of colorless.

   Note: [Narrower terms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent,
         shot; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing;
         prismatic; psychedelic; red, ruddy, flushed,
         empurpled]

   Syn: colourful.
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   2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless
      or dull. [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious;
      flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; flashy, gaudy,
      jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty; picturesque]
      [WordNet 1.5]

   3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey;
      as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and
      monochrome.

   Note: [Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; amber,
         brownish-yellow, yellow-brown; amethyst; auburn,
         reddish-brown; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden;
         azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; bicolor,
         bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome; blue,
         bluish, light-blue, dark-blue; blushful,
         blush-colored, rosy; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy;
         brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; canary,
         canary-yellow; caramel, caramel brown; carnation;
         chartreuse; chestnut; dun; earth-colored,
         earthlike; fuscous; green, greenish, light-green,
         dark-green; jade, jade-green; khaki; lavender,
         lilac; mauve; moss green, mosstone; motley,
         multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured,
         painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied,
         varicolored, varicoloured; mousy, mouse-colored;
         ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive;
         orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish;
         purple, violet, purplish; red, blood-red, carmine,
         cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red,
         scarlet; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red;
         rust, rusty, rust-colored; snuff, snuff-brown,
         snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored,
         snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown; sorrel,
         brownish-orange; stone, stone-gray; straw-color,
         straw-colored, straw-coloured; tan; tangerine;
         tawny; ultramarine; umber; vermilion,
         vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red; yellow, yellowish;
         yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; blae
         bluish-black or gray-blue); coral; creamy; cress
         green, cresson, watercress; hazel; honey,
         honey-colored; hued(postnominal); magenta;
         maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green;
         sea-green] [Also See: chromatic, colored, dark,
         light.]

   Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).
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Carnation, WA -- U.S. city in Washington
   Population (2000):    1893
   Housing Units (2000): 650
   Land area (2000):     1.095255 sq. miles (2.836698 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    1.095255 sq. miles (2.836698 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            10215
   Located within:       Washington (WA), FIPS 53
   Location:             47.648234 N, 121.908630 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     98014
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Carnation, WA
    Carnation