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cheddar pink

cheddar pink

9.3
A low garden plant that lives for many years and has fragrant pink or red flowers
  • noun
translation icon : clavel de Cheddar
  • The cheddar pink thrives in rocky gardens and adds vibrant color in late spring.

Examples

  • The cheddar pink is admired for its hardy nature and beautiful blooms.

  • She planted several cheddar pinks along the garden border for their fragrance.

  • The garden was full of cheddar pinks blooming beautifully.

  • I love the scent of cheddar pink flowers in spring.

  • She planted several cheddar pinks along the garden border for their fragrance.

  • The cheddar pink thrives in rocky gardens and adds vibrant color in late spring.

  • The cheddar pink is admired for its hardy nature and beautiful blooms.

Synonyms

Diangus gratianopolitanus
vscheddar pink
  • Specialized
9.9

A low plant that lives many years and forms flat spreading patches with large sweet pink or red flowers

is mainly grown in gardens and used in cultivation rather than wild

Surface Forms

cheddar pink singular
cheddar pinks plural

Morphology

cheddar + pink

The compound is morphologically compositional: 'cheddar' modifies 'pink', and 'pink' is a Dianthus (a flower), so a learner who knows both constituents could plausibly infer this is a type/variety of pink (a flower). However, 'Cheddar' is a proper name (or otherwise unspecified) and the precise botanical details (mat-forming perennial, specific cultivar) require extra cultural or domain knowledge, so the full sense is not fully predictable from the parts alone.

Etymology

Cheddar pink may be named after the Cheddar area in England where the plant grew wild, while pink points to the flower's soft pink color and its jagged petal edges once called 'pinked' when cloth was cut with little points. So the name simply means a pink, fragrant flower from Cheddar, which makes the word easy to remember.