mountain pinkn.
/ˌmaʊntᵻn ˈpɪŋk/, U.S. /ˈmaʊnt(ə)n ˌpɪŋk/ 1. Originally: any of various wild species of Dianthus or related genera of the family Caryophyllaceae. Later: any of various upland pinks, esp. Cheddar pink, D. gratianopolitanus.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > pinks or carnations
gillyflower1517
carnation1538
clove gillyflower1538
incarnation1538
William1538
pink1566
John1572
Indian eye1573
sops-in-wine1573
sweet John1573
sweet-william1573
tuft gillyflower1573
Colmenier1578
small honesty1578
tol-me-neer1578
London tuft1597
maidenly pink1597
mountain pink1597
clove-carnation1605
musk-gillyflower1607
London pride1629
pride of London1629
maiden pink1650
Indian pink1664
Spanish pink1664
pheasant's eye pink1718
flake1727
flame1727
picotee1727
old man's head1731
painted lady1731
piquet1731
China-pink1736
clove1746
wild pink1753
lime-wort1777
matted thrift1792
clove-pink1837
Cheddar Pink1843
Dianthus1849
bunch pink1857
perpetual-flowering carnation1861
cliff pink1863
meadow pink1866
musk carnation1866
Jack1873
wax-pink1891
Malmaison1892
grenadin1904
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. clxxiii. 475 The purple mountaine or wilde Pinke hath many small grassie leaues... The mountaine Pinke of Clusius his description hath many leaues growing into a tuft like vnto those of Thrift.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. iv. §102 He beareth Argent, a Mountain Pink, proper. The leaves grow thick in Tufts like grass, the Flower rised out of them by single stalks.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 411 [Dianthus] cæsius... Mountain Pink... Chedder Rocks.
1902 Athenæum 30 Aug. 287/1 Where bed on bed of mountain-pinks Above the lava-boulders blow.
1936 Discovery Feb. 46/2 There [i.e. on a mountain in Yugoslavia] I found tall mountain pinks of deep crimson, single-flowering.
2. U.S. The moss pink, Phlox subulata.
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innocent1600
lychnidea1733
swamp lily1737
atamasco lily1743
phlox1754
lychnis1760
painted cup1776
mountain pink1818
phacelia1818
innocence1821
Nemophila1822
clarkia1827
Physostegia1830
bitter root1838
standing cypress1841
false mermaid1845
lion's heart1845
shooting star1856
lewisia1863
satin flower1871
fame-flower1879
baby blue-eyes1887
mayflower1892
agastache1900
obedient plant1900
Pennsylvania anemone1900
rock rose1906
Virginia bluebell1934
parsley1936
poached egg flower1963
poached eggs1971
poached egg plant1977
1818 A. Eaton Man. Bot. (ed. 2) ii. 357 Phlox..subulata..mountain pink.
1933 J. K. Small Man. Southeastern Flora 1102 P. subulata... Low matted evergreen shrub with numerous..flowering shoots... Mountain pink.
1981 L. A. Pederson et al. Ling. Atlas Gulf States 0317/062 Mountain pinks.
3. U.S. Trailing arbutus, Epigaea repens.
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woodbine1624
Virginia vine1629
staff-tree1633
Virginia creeper?1703
climbing vine1760
mayflower1778
pepper vine1783
arbutus1785
trailing arbutus1785
pipe vine1803
Ampelopsis1805
ground-laurel1814
waxwork1818
ivory plum1828
fever twig1830
yerba buena1847
mountain pink1850
New England mayflower1855
creeping snowberry1856
Virginian creeper1856
May blossom1871
sand verbena1880
staff-vine1884
1850 L. Sawyer Way Sketches (1926) 53 We found..some beautiful specimens of what we called mountain pink. It is much smaller than our garden pink.
1911 A. Henkel Amer. Medicinal Leaves & Herbs 18 Mountain pink..is greatly prized on account of its delicate shell-pink, waxy blossoms.
1959 R. M. Carleton Index Common Names Herbaceous Plants 84 Mountain-pink, Epigaea repens.
4. U.S. Any of several centauries, esp. Centaurium beyrichii of Texas.
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scammony1567
teamster's tea1728
buchu1731
goatweed1756
Iceland moss1785
argel1803
opopanax-wort1811
papoose root1811
ginseng1818
mad-dog weed1818
chirayta1829
Corsican moss1849
goatweed1864
devil's claw1876
sneezeweed1877
lingzhi1904
mountain pink1936
1936 E. Whitehouse Texas Flowers in Nat. Colors 95 Mountain Pink..(Erythraea beyrichii)... The stems..often form hemispherical clumps..which are covered with pink flowers in June.
1964 J. M. Kingsbury Poisonous Plants U.S. & Canada 260 Gentianaceae Centaurium beyrichii Robind. Rock centaury, mountain pink.
c1979 Flowers of Texas (Texas State Dept. Highways) 16 Mountain-pink thrives on gravelly hills of Central Texas and westward.
2000 D. C. Watts Elsevier's Dict. Plant Names 629/1 Mountain Pink, Centaurium calycosum (Buckley Centaury).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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