Helen Fenton

Amarantaceous: Definition and part of speech

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Amarantaceous

  1. a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the amaranth is the type.

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.

Amaranth: Definition and part of speech

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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.

Amaranthine: Definition and part of speech

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Amaranthine

  1. a. Of a purplish color.
  2. a. Of or pertaining to amaranth.
  3. a. Unfading, as the poetic amaranth; undying.

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.

Amaryllideous: Definition and part of speech

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Amaryllideous

  1. a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants differing from the lily family chiefly in having the ovary below the /etals. The narcissus and daffodil are members of this family.

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.