means A pale red color ranging from soft rose to vivid magenta, made by mixing red with white.

from The color was named for the flower, not the other way around: 'pink' as a flower (a type of dianthus) is recorded long before 'pink' the color, which only became common in the 17th century. The flower's name likely comes from the verb 'to pink,' meaning to cut or pierce with a jagged edge — think pinking shears — because the petals have a frilled, scissored look. So the soft hue we call pink is named after a frill, which is named after a stab.