Incarnadine.

The Word of the Day for Friday, October 2, 2009 was a real doozy. Not only had I never heard of it before, but upon reading it’s meaning quickly, figured I would probably never would use it anyway. What about you? Would you be likely to use a word with the following meanings, in any likelihood?
“Incarnadine \in-KAR-nuh-dyn\, adjective:
1. Having a fleshy pink color.
2. Red; blood-red.
transitive verb:
1. To make red or crimson.”
However, upon reading further, I found it is from the same Latin rootstock as three words in very common usage in some circles today, including mine.
One common and known to almost anyone with even just a rudimentary Knowledge of Garden plants and flowers. And the other two, although probably not used as much, are common to most religious folk and specifically Christians.
So, to you gardeners and Christians out there today, can you tell me what these three relatively common words (with totally different applications today) are?
Maybe the following will help you out?
“Incarnadine comes from the Italian ‘incarnatino’, which came from the Latin incarnato, meaning something incarnate, made flesh, from in + caro, carn-, "flesh." It is related to carnation, etymologically the flesh-colored flower; incarnate, "in the flesh; made flesh"; and carnal, "pertaining to the body or its appetites."
So, although like me you had probably no idea what ‘Incarnadine’ meant and unlikely to ever use it in its proper form, you have moist likely seen and heard, if not used, its related words. You may not use carnal and incarnate as much as I would, but I am pretty sure you have all seen a Carnation Flower before, even if not in its original incarnadine colouring!
Not sure how the above will help you today, but it has helped me to understand where some of the common words I use have come form and truly gives more feeling to Christ becoming incarnate or in the Flesh, particularly with the blood red connotations too!