Crossword clues for gillyflower
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.] (Bot.)
A name given by old writers to the clove pink ( Dianthus Caryophyllus) but now to the common stock ( Matthiola incana), a cruciferous plant with showy and fragrant blossoms, usually purplish, but often pink or white.
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A kind of apple, of a roundish conical shape, purplish red color, and having a large core.
Clove gillyflower, the clove pink.
Marsh gillyflower, the ragged robin ( Lychnis Flos-cuculi).
Queen's gillyflower, or Winter gillyflower, damewort.
Sea gillyflower, the thrift ( Armeria vulgaris).
Wall gillyflower, the wallflower ( Cheiranthus Cheiri).
Water gillyflower, the water violet.
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-) + phyllon "leaf" (see phyllo-). The flower so named for its scent, so called from late 14c.
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 red, and shown with or without a slip and leaf.
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, Dianthus caryophyllus]
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.