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carnation

 (n): Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors
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about 1 year ago seanmeade said:

*awesome* etymology: from Italian incarnatino, which came from the Latin incarnato, something incarnate, made flesh, from in + caro, carn-, "flesh." It is related to carnation, etymologically the flesh-colored flower; incarnate, "in the flesh; made flesh"; and carnal, "pertaining to the body or its appetites."

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