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any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers
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The words on this list do not denote color in and of themselves, but you can (and should) use them that way. They'll brighten your writing and make your descriptions more visually specific -- think apple green as opposed to bright green.
In Fight Club, possibly the manliest movie of the nineties, Brad Pitt's character Tyler Durden asks, "Now why do guys like you and me know what a duvet is? Is this essential to our survival, in the hunter-gatherer sense of the word?" Contrary to Tyler Durden's suggestion about feminization and consumerism, the results of a new online vocabulary test from Ghent University suggest that men aren't as familiar with stereotypically "female" words like "taffeta" as Durden suggested. (Though it should be noted that it is only on "taffeta" that the percentage of males who know the word falls below 50%. Most of these words were familiar to more than half the men) The words below are those with the biggest percentage splits by gender where women knew the word more than men in a simple recognition task.