gillyflower

IPA: gˈɪɫifɫaʊɝ

Clove pink.
(by extension) Any clove-scented flower.
Any of several species of wallflower.
A variety of purplish-red apple with a roundish conical shape and a large core.
(heraldry) A stylized representation of a carnation blossom, usually red, and shown with or without a slip and leaves.

Examples of "gillyflower" in Sentences

“Not of course at all!” replied Francie, who used a particularly expensive essence of gillyflower herself.
"Not of course at all!" replied Francie, who used a particularly expensive essence of gillyflower herself.
Well, a booky as big almost as a hay-stack; I have put up two bottles of the gillyflower-water for Mrs. Sedley, and the receipt for making it, in Amelias box.
He knew gillyflower tea from the Temple, where it occasionally appeared with the morning bread, and it did seem to wake him up when he felt a little foggy or sleepy.
Only a few flowers of autumn were visible, such as the fleabane and red gillyflower, autumn colchicums in the ravine, and under the beeches bracken and tufts of northern heather.
A very pretty picture was she, reader. -- with such a face as you sometimes see painted in those wayside shrines of sunny Italy, where the lamp burns pale at evening, and gillyflower and cyclamen are renewed with every morning.
Add lesser quantities (the recipe says a denier) of the following spices: galingale, cloves (no more than 1/2 teaspoon, I suggest), gillyflower (if you can get it, which I have never succeeded in doing), long pepper (Asian groceries have this, sometimes), nutmeg, cardamon, mace.