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Amaranth

noun

Seed of amaranth plants used as a native cereal in Central and South America.

Any of various plants of the genus Amaranthus having dense plumes of green or red flowers; often cultivated for food.

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"Amaranth" Quotes from Famous Books

... fragrant, like myself, are they?" she made reply. "Give them to me." She took them, and bent over them. "The blushing rose," she said, gravely, "the stately lily, the royal carnation, the golden moly, the purple amaranth, the green bryon, the diosanthos, the sertula, the sweet modest saliunca, fit emblems of Callista. Well, in a few hours they will have faded; yes, they will get more and ...

— Callista • John Henry Cardinal Newman

Words linked to "Amaranth" : tassel flower, tumbleweed, herb, velvet flower, prince's-feather, Amaranthus graecizans, pigweed, gentleman's-cane, caryopsis, prince's-plume, love-lies-bleeding, grain, herbaceous plant