0 (a plant with) a small flower with a sweet smell, usually white, pink, or red in colour
1 a small flower that has a sweet smell and is usually white, pink, or red
A curious kind of wild flower, a pink and fragrant carnation, blooms there profusely all summer long.
A lady laid a letter and two white carnations on your writing-table.
How fair carnation and wallflower the borders of the garden line!
The carnations were quite fresh, and had evidently not been plucked more than an hour.
But hostile journalists insisted that the green carnation, like the sunflower and lily, was just the latest fashion.
Using either keyboard or voice, users can say things like make the sky a deeper blue or make the background carnation pink, and the software makes the appropriate changes.
It even described the red carnation he had in his buttonhole.
