'Sea pink' definitions:
Definition of 'sea pink'
(from WordNet)
noun
Tufted thrift of seacoasts and mountains of north temperate zone; occasionally grown as a ground cover [syn: cliff rose, sea pink, Armeria maritima]
Definition of 'Sea pink'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection of something. "The very pink of courtesy." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Zool.) The European minnow; -- so called from the color of its abdomen in summer. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'sea pink'
From: GCIDE
- Thrift \Thrift\ (thr[i^]ft), n. [Icel. [thorn]rift. See Thrive.]
- 1. A thriving state; good husbandry; economical management in regard to property; frugality. [1913 Webster]
- The rest, . . . willing to fall to thrift, prove very good husbands. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity. "Your thrift is gone full clean." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- I have a mind presages me such thrift. --Shak. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
- 3. Vigorous growth, as of a plant. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Bot.) One of several species of flowering plants of the genera Statice and Armeria. [1913 Webster]
- Common thrift (Bot.), Armeria vulgaris; -- also called sea pink. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Frugality; economy; prosperity; gain; profit. [1913 Webster]