Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - carnation

 noun  Etymology: Middle French, from Old Italian carnagione, from carne flesh, from Latin carn-, caro  Date: circa 1535  1.  a.  (1) the variable color of human flesh  (2) a pale to grayish yellow  b. a moderate red  2. a plant of any of numerous often cultivated and usually double-flowered varieties or subspecies of an Old World pink (Dianthus caryophyllus) originally flesh-colored but now found in many color variations