carnation

A type of Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its flowers.

A type of Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its flowers.

The type of flower they bear, originally flesh-coloured, but since hybridizing found in a variety of colours.

A rosy pink colour

And the women of New Bedford, they bloom like their own red roses. But roses only bloom in summer; whereas the fine carnation of their cheeks is perennial as sunlight in the seventh heavens.

The pinkish colors used in art to render human face and flesh

Of a rosy pink or red colour.

Of a human flesh color.