dianthus chinensis

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   Chinese pink with deeply toothed rose-lilac flowers with a purplish eye; usually raised as an annual

   Synonymschina pinkrainbow pink

   Broaderpink

   NarrowerJapanese pink

Questions about dianthus chinensis

What does dianthus chinensis mean?

dianthus chinensis means "Chinese pink with deeply toothed rose-lilac flowers with a purplish eye; usually raised as an annual".

What is another word for dianthus chinensis?

Close synonyms include china pink, rainbow pink. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dianthus chinensis a common word?

dianthus chinensis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.