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Any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers
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gillyflower
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, folk etymology spelling (by association of flower ) of gilofre , originally "clove," c.1300, from Old French girofle "clove," ultimately from Greek karyophyllon "clove, nut leaf, dried flower bud of clove tree," from karyon "nut" (see karyo- ) + ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gillyflower \Gil"ly*flow`er\, n. [OE. gilofre, gilofer, clove, OF. girofre, girofle, F. girofle: cf. F. girofl['e]e gillyflower, fr. girofle, Gr. ? clove tree; ? nut + ? leaf, akin to E. foliage. Cf. Caryophyllus , July-flower .] [Written also gilliflower ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 clove pink 2 Any clove-scented flower. 3 Any of several species of wallflower. 4 A variety of purplish-red apple with a roundish conical shape and a large core. 5 (context heraldiccharge English) A stylized representation of a carnation blossom, usually ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers [syn: stock ] Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors [syn: carnation , clove pink ...
Usage examples of gillyflower.
She thought alfalfa tea would be good, since it was generally stimulating and refreshing, with some borage flowers and leaves, which made a healthful tonic, and gillyflowers for sweetness and a mild spicy taste.
There was also a square of green for bleaching clothes, a gean tree, a plot of gillyflowers and monkshood, and another of precious herbs like clary, penny-royal, and marjoram.
In the Merse, which is my country-side, they stick the kitchen-midden up against the dining-room window, and their notion of a pleasance is a wheen grosart bushes and gillyflowers sore scarted by hens.
Basil, marjoram, gillyflowers and jasmine were old and dear companions.
Basil, marjoram, gillyflowers and jasmine were old and dear companions.
She fingered her rosary and stared into the bed of gillyflowers, certain the thegn was up to no good.
All day Ashurst rested his knee, in a green-painted wooden chair on the patch of grass by the yew-tree porch, where the sunlight distilled the scent of stocks and gillyflowers, and a ghost of scent from the flowering-currant bushes.
Bindweed and geraniums sparkled with joy, late gillyflowers grew in the shadier spots, there were rose bushes weighed down with roses, and a dense copse of lilac and elder.
As she padded to the stone bench in the corner, she sat, enjoying the glorious abundance of marigolds and gillyflowers.