gillyflower's Usage Examples:

In both these cases, however, it is the clove-gillyflower which is intended, as it is also in the passage from Gerard, in which he states that the conserve made of the flowers with sugar "is exceeding cordiall, and wonderfully above measure doth comfort the heart, being eaten now and then.

The gillyflower of Chaucer and Spenser and Shakespeare was, as in Italy, Dianthus Caryophyllus; that of later writers and of gardeners, Matthiola.

Synonyms:

flower, genus Matthiola, brompton stock, Matthiola incana, Matthiola, stock,

Antonyms:

nonstandard, achromatic, achromatic color,