Periwinkle vs Carnation - What's the difference?
periwinkle | carnation |
Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Vinca with blue or white flowers.
* 1653 , (Nicholas Culpeper), The English Physician Enlarged , Folio Society 2007, p. 220:
A color with bluish and purplish hues, somewhat light.
(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.
As nouns the difference between periwinkle and carnation
is that periwinkle is any of several evergreen plants of the genus vinca with blue or white flowers or periwinkle can be a mollusk of genus while carnation is (botany) a type of eurasian plant widely cultivated for its flowers.As adjectives the difference between periwinkle and carnation
is that periwinkle is of pale bluish purple colour while carnation is of a rosy pink or red colour.periwinkle
English
(wikipedia periwinkle)Etymology 1
Diminutive of (etyl) perwinke, from (etyl) perfince, perwince (compare Middle High German berwinke), from Latin (vinca) pervinca (compare French pervenche, Italian pervinca), of unknown origin.Noun
(en noun)- The Periwinkle is a great binder, staying bleeding both at mouth and nose is some of the leaves be chewed.
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