A carnation is a dicot. It's flower parts are in groups of four and its leaves have netted venation.
Dicot. Notice the Venation, it is net like and spread where as in monocot plants, the venation is parallel. There are more ways to distinguish this, but this is the more obvious trait.
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The White Ash is a dicot belonging to class Magnoliopsida.