noun (n)

• any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers(noun.plant)

  Synonym:
  stock
  

  source: wordnet30
• Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors(noun.plant)

  Synonym:
  carnation, clove pink, dianthus caryophyllus
  

  source: wordnet30
• A name given by old writers to the clove pink (Dianthus Caryophyllus) but now to the common stock (Matthiola incana), a cruciferous plant with showy and fragrant blossoms, usually purplish, but often pink or white.(noun)

  source: webster1913