grass pink

grass pink

noun
1.
a pink, Dianthus plumarius, of Europe and Asia, having fragrant, fringed pink, purplish, or white flowers.
2.
an orchid, Calopogon tuberosus, having clusters of rose or purplish-pink flowers, growing in bogs of eastern North America.

Origin:
1810–20, Americanism
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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grass pink

noun
1. an orchid 
2. European pink cultivated for its very fragrant pink or rosy flowers [syn: cottage pink
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