What is "china pink"

China \Chi"na\, n.

1. A country in Eastern Asia.

2. China ware, which is the modern popular term for porcelain. See Porcelain. China aster (Bot.), a well-known garden flower and plant. See Aster. China bean. See under Bean, 1. China clay See Kaolin. China grass, Same as Ramie. China ink. See India ink. China pink (Bot.), an anual or biennial species of Dianthus ( Dianthus Chiensis) having variously colored single or double flowers; Indian pink. China root (Med.), the rootstock of a species of Smilax ( Smilax China, from the East Indies; -- formerly much esteemed for the purposes that sarsaparilla is now used for. Also the galanga root (from Alpinia Gallanga and Alpinia officinarum). China rose. (Bot.)

   1. A popular name for several free-blooming varieties of rose derived from the Rosa Indica, and perhaps other species.

   2. A flowering hothouse plant ( Hibiscus Rosa-Sinensis) of the Mallow family, common in the gardens of China and the east Indies.

      China shop, a shop or store for the sale of China ware or of crockery.

      Pride of China, China tree. (Bot.) See Azedarach.

Pink \Pink\, n. [Perh. akin to pick; as if the edges of the petals were picked out. Cf. Pink, v. t.]

1. (Bot.) A name given to several plants of the caryophyllaceous genus Dianthus, and to their flowers, which are sometimes very fragrant and often double in cultivated varieties. The species are mostly perennial herbs, with opposite linear leaves, and handsome five-petaled flowers with a tubular calyx.

2. A color resulting from the combination of a pure vivid red with more or less white; -- so called from the common color of the flower.
   --Dryden.

3. Anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection of something. ``The very pink of courtesy.''
   --Shak.

4. (Zo["o]l.) The European minnow; -- so called from the color of its abdomen in summer. [Prov. Eng.]

   Bunch pink is Dianthus barbatus.

   China pink, or Indian pink. See under China.

   Clove pink is Dianthus Caryophyllus, the stock from which carnations are derived.

   Garden pink. See Pheasant's eye.

   Meadow pink is applied to Dianthus deltoides; also, to the ragged robin.

   Maiden pink, Dianthus deltoides.

   Moss pink. See under Moss.

   Pink needle, the pin grass; -- so called from the long, tapering points of the carpels. See Alfilaria.

   Sea pink. See Thrift.

n. Chinese pink with deeply toothed rose-lilac flowers with a purplish eye; usually raised as an annual [syn: rainbow pink, Dianthus chinensis]