[kahr-ney-shuh
n] 
| 1. | any of numerous cultivated varieties of the clove pink, Dianthus caryophyllus, having long-stalked, fragrant, usually double flowers in a variety of colors: the state flower of Ohio. |
| 2. | pink; light red. |
| 3. | Obsolete. the color of flesh. |
| 4. | having the color carnation. |
| car·na·tion (kär-nā'shən) n.
[From obsolete French, flesh-colored, from Old French (from Old Italian carnagione, skin, complexion, from carne, flesh) or from Late Latin carnātiō, carnātiōn-, flesh, both from Latin carō, carn-; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots.] |