carnation

英 [kɑ?'ne??(?)n] 美[kɑr'ne??n]

TEM8低頻詞暢通詞匯花

復數:?carnations;

音譯“康乃馨”。

carnation 康乃馨

來自coronation的拼寫異化形式，原指用作花環的花。拼寫受詞根carn（肉）影響俗化，實際上大多數該類型花呈粉紅肉，而非肉色。

carnation (n.): "Dianthus Caryophyllus," commonly also called "pink," herbaceous perennial flowering plant native to southern Europe and abundant in Normandy, 1530s, of uncertain origin. The early forms are confused; perhaps (on evidence of early spellings) it is a corruption of coronation, from the flower's being used in chaplets or from the toothed crown-like look of the petals.

Or it might be called for its pinkness and derive from Middle French carnation "person's color or complexion" (15c.), which probably is from Italian dialectal carnagione "flesh color," from Late Latin carnationem (nominative carnatio) "fleshiness," from Latin caro "flesh" (see carnage). This carnation had been borrowed separately into English as "color of human flesh" (1530s) and as an adjective meaning "flesh-colored" (1560s; the earliest use of the word in English was to mean "the incarnation of Christ," mid-14c.). OED points out that not all the flowers are this color.

4. The fine carnation of their cheeks is perennial as sunlight in the seventh heavens.: 她們面頰的美麗的淡紅色象七重天里的陽光始終輝煌燦爛.

5. Miss Anna Jarvis's mother's favorite flower was the white carnation.: 安娜·維絲小姐的母親最喜愛的花是白色康乃馨.