Amaryllis

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of several chiefly tropical American bulbous plants of the genus Hippeastrum grown as ornamentals for their large, showy, funnel-shaped, variously colored flowers that are grouped in umbels.
  • n. See belladonna lily.
  • n. Any of several similar or related plants.
  • n. Used in classical pastoral poetry as a conventional name for a shepherdess.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The Belladonna lily
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A pastoral sweetheart.
  • n.
  • n. A family of plants much esteemed for their beauty, including the narcissus, jonquil, daffodil, agave, and others.
  • n. A genus of the same family, including the Belladonna lily.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A genus of bulbous plants, natural order Amaryllidaceœ, with large, bright-colored, lilyshaped flowers upon a stout scape.
  • n. [lowercase] A plant of this genus.
  • n. 3. In zoology, a genus of crustaceans.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. bulbous plant having showy white to reddish flowers
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