amarantus

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noun A genus of plants, natural order Amarantaceæ, including several long-cultivated garden-plants, as the cockscomb (A. cristatus), prince's-feather (A. hypochondriacus), love-liesbleeding (A. caudatus), etc. Several dwarf forms of A. melancholicus, with variegated or distinctly colored leaves, are favorite bedding-plants. Also written Amaranthus.

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It's English name comes from the Greek amarantus, meaning "never fading", an apt designation, given the varying degrees of esteem and loathing in which this humble plant has been held.

Mexico's Grain Of The Gods: Cooking With Amaranth 2006
It's English name comes from the Greek amarantus, meaning "never fading", an apt designation, given the varying degrees of esteem and loathing in which this humble plant has been held.

Mexico's Grain Of The Gods: Cooking With Amaranth 2006
Commissiong, who will be chief business officer, said the new name is derived from the Latin "amarantus" and means "one who does not wither."

Dallas Business News - Local Dallas News | Dallas Business Journal 2009
Commissiong, who will be chief business officer, said the new name is derived from the Latin "amarantus" and means "one who does not wither."

San Antonio Business News - Local San Antonio News | The San Antonio Business Journal 2009
Its hills were white with marble and green with gardens, and traced and spotted and flecked with gold; its thoroughfares were bright with color -- white, purple, yellow, scarlet -- like a field of roses and amarantus.

Vergilius A Tale of the Coming of Christ Irving Bacheller 1904
In Italta vioHs fuceedit rofa t buic intervenit litium: rofam cyanus excipitf ejanum amarantus, De myrto plura lib. z* an -

Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera Horace, Ludovicus Desprez, André Dacier 1793