Amaranth: Definition and part of speech

Amaranth

  1. n. A color inclining to purple.
  2. n. An imaginary flower supposed never to fade.
  3. n. A genus of ornamental annual plants (Amaranthus) of many species, with green, purplish, or crimson flowers.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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