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Gillyflower

Gillyflower meaning

Clove pink. | Any clove-scented flower. | Any of several species of wallflower.

Example sentences (1)

In the poem, the narrator visits the spot where a pearl once slipped from his grasp and got lost among “Gilofre, gyngure, & gromylyoune, / & pyonys powdered ay bytwene” (“ginger, gromwell, and gillyflower / with peonies scattered in between”).