Carnation vs Clove - What's the difference?
carnation | clove |
(botany) A type of Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its flowers.
# originally, Dianthus caryophyllus
# other members of genus Dianthus and hybrids
The type of flower they bear, originally flesh-coloured, but since hybridizing found in a variety of colours.
A rosy pink colour
(archaic) The pinkish colors used in art to render human face and flesh
Sometimes, a scarlet colour.
Of a rosy pink or red colour
(archaic) Of a human flesh color.
A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.
), native to the Moluccas (Indonesian islands), which produces the spice.
(label) An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone.
* 1843 , The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge p. 202.
* 1866 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, p. 169:
(cleave)
(label) A narrow valley with steep sides, used in areas of North America first settled by the Dutch
As nouns the difference between carnation and clove
is that carnation is botany A type of Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its flowers while clove is a very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.As an adjective carnation
is of a rosy pink or red colour.As a verb clove is
simple past of cleave.carnation
English
(wikipedia carnation)Noun
Synonyms
* clove pink (also called gillyflower), (ancestor of the carnation) Dianthus caryophyllus *Adjective
(-)See also
* * gypsophilaAnagrams
* ----clove
English
Etymology 1
An alteration of (etyl) (m), from the first component of (etyl) . (wikipedia clove)Noun
- Seven pounds make a clove', 2 '''cloves''' a stone, 2 stone a tod 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. The 'Pathway' points out the etymology of the word '''cloves ; it calls them ' ''claves'' or ''nails .' It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
- By a statute of 9 Hen. VI. it was ordained that the wey of cheese should contain 32 cloves of 7 lbs. each, i.e. 224 lbs., or 2 cwts.