china pink
- noun
- /ˈtʃaɪnə pɪŋk/
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- She planted china pink in her window boxes for a splash of color.
Examples
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Every summer, the border was filled with blooming china pink alongside marigolds and zinnias.
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The garden is full of china pinks this spring.
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The delicate, toothed petals of the china pink were admired by garden visitors.
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I bought some china pink seeds yesterday.
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The garden was filled with colorful blooms, including vibrant china pink flowers that brightened up the landscape.
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She decided to plant china pink in her garden because of its beautiful rose-lilac petals.
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Every spring, the china pink would bloom, attracting butterflies to her backyard.
Synonyms
A small garden flower with pink or lilac frilly petals often grown for summer color
A small garden flower with frilled rose-coloured petals often grown for one season
A garden flower with fringed, jagged petals often grown for its bright colors
A small garden flower with bright, jagged-edged pink petals
Surface Forms
Morphology
china + pink
This is a compositional plant name: 'pink' denotes the Dianthus flower and 'china' functions as a geographic/variety modifier, so a learner who knows both constituents can infer it is a type of pink (an ornamental Dianthus). The country/modifier + species naming pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows regular word-formation, making the meaning immediately derivable.
Etymology
China pink likely got its name because the plant came from China and its flowers have small, frilly cuts at the edge, and one popular story says 'pink' here does not mean the colour but the notched petal edge. So the name helps you picture a Chinese flower with frilled, toothed petals, which is why it refers to this ornamental plant.
