Carnation vs. Clove — What's the Difference?

A double-flowered cultivated variety of clove pink, with grey-green leaves and showy pink, white, or red flowers.

Cloves are the aromatic flower buds of a tree in the family Myrtaceae, Syzygium aromaticum. They are native to the Maluku Islands (or Moluccas) in Indonesia, and are commonly used as a spice.

A rosy pink colour

An evergreen tree (Syzygium aromaticum) native to the Moluccas and widely cultivated as a source of oil and for its aromatic dried flower buds.

Any of numerous cultivated forms of a perennial plant (Dianthus caryophyllus) having showy, variously colored, usually double, often fragrant flowers with fringed petals.

A flower bud of this plant, used whole or ground as a spice.

A flower of this plant. Also called clove pink.

One of the small sections of a separable bulb, as that of garlic.

A pinkish tint once used in painting.

A past tense of cleave1.

A type of Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its flowers.

(Archaic)A past participle of cleave1.

Originally, Dianthus caryophyllus

A past tense of cleave2.

Other members of genus Dianthus and hybrids

A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.

The type of flower they bear, originally flesh-coloured, but since hybridizing found in a variety of colours.

(countable) A clove tree, of the species Syzygium aromaticum (syn. Caryophyllus aromaticus), native to the Moluccas (Indonesian islands), which produces the spice.

A rosy pink colour

(countable) An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone. is this under the correct etymology?

(archaic) The pinkish colors used in art to render human face and flesh

One of the small bulbs formed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb.

A scarlet colour.

Cleft.

Of a rosy pink or red colour.

A cleft; a gap; a ravine; - rarely used except as part of a proper name; as, Kaaterskill Clove; Stone Clove.

(archaic) Of a human flesh color.

A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree (Eugenia aromatica syn. Caryophullus aromatica), a native of the Molucca Isles.

The natural color of flesh; rosy pink.

One of the small bulbs developed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb, as in the case of garlic.

Those parts of a picture in which the human body or any part of it is represented in full color; the flesh tints.

A weight. A clove of cheese is about eight pounds, of wool, about seven pounds.

A species of Dianthus (Dianthus Caryophyllus) or pink, having very beautiful flowers of various colors, esp. white and usually a rich, spicy scent.

Aromatic flower bud of a clove tree; yields a spice

Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors

Moderate sized very symmetrical red-flowered evergreen widely cultivated in the tropics for its flower buds which are source of cloves

A pink or reddish-pink color

One of the small bulblets that can be split off of the axis of a larger garlic bulb

Having the color of a carnation

Spice from dried unopened flower bud of the clove tree; used whole or ground