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How to use carnation in a sentence

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Growing carnation petals showed high activities of cellulase and pectin esterase.
The colours are deftly placed, the flaunting red of the carnation answering the scarlet of the nasturtiums straggling on the plinth below.
Mention the names carnation, pinks or sweet William and most gardeners will immediately recognize the family of plants.
The name gillyflower is also used for the Virginia stock, the wallflower, and for the carnation of the pink family.
A magazine editor and writer with a literary background, Fry wore impeccably tailored suits, always sporting a carnation in the lapel.
In the Munich painting, the artist has rendered the child, eyes straying and unfocused, reaching almost blindly for the Virgin's carnation.
To the majority of nurserymen, pied wagtails are hardly welcome because they foul tomatoes, and chrysanthemums and carnation blooms.
Dianthus are known by numerous other names, including carnation, clove pink, cottage pink, gillyflower and pinks.
That morning she wore a pretty carnation pink dress, a belt clasped perfectly around her waist.
Centered on the crest is the white carnation, with the Chi to the left and the Omega to the right of the flower.
A member of the carnation family, Spalding's catchfly is a long-lived perennial herb with small greenish-white flowers.
Rose, gladiolus, carnation and dahlia are some of the common flowers that are in style with customers.
He always wore a dark blue pinstriped suit, waistcoat with a gold fob, a red carnation, a trilby, and an umbrella.
A similar procedure is used with the carnation, in which the shoot tip forms a cell mass that can be subdivided.
And cast a smile upon the friendless carnation that's been permanently sidelined to the Korean markets.
The carnation is the official flower of the MS Society and you will be able to purchase a bouquet or potted plant at several locations near you.
Recalling the artificiality of Armistice Day lapel poppies, the familiar carnation hovers on a collage of basketballs, light bulbs, and peace signs.
But the experiment for which he is best remembered is the crossing of a sweet william with a plant of the same genus, the ever-popular carnation.
In addition, approval has also been granted for cultivation of two genetically modified carnation varieties.
The Netherlands authorities received a notification concerning the placing on the market of a carnation genetically modified for flower colour.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It is not a grass but a sedge with leaves rather like those of a carnation.
The snowy petals, with their lacelike edges, closely resemble those of the white carnation.
Lily sits upon the settee by the piano and fastens the carnation in her dress.
May flushed a little, and put her hand consciously to the carnation at her throat.
Then off she ran after her father, who had only changed one carnation for another.
Its colouring is pink like a carnation in a pale, suffused sort of way.
Jimmie Sullivan had clumped over to Aunt Jane, carrying his carnation.
In his mouth was a cigarette, and in his buttonhole a pink carnation.
A pink carnation in his buttonhole matched his healthy complexion.
The carnation, sweet william and pink are all members of which genus of plants?
The carnation Maggot can be dug out of the heart of a plant with a needle.
The carnation derived its generic name from the latter source.
No woman ever combined a carnation and a rosebud into a boutonniere.
The fragrance is clean and crisp with masculine undertones and highlights scents including bergamot, grapefruit, fir needle, black carnation, patchouli, musk and amber.
Da Souza was gorgeous in frock coat and silk hat, a carnation in his buttonhole, a diamond in his black satin tie, yet he was not altogether happy.
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