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.
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.
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n. bulbous plant having showy white to reddish flowers
Word Usage
"And some of the oxalis tribe yield great returns; and cyclamens are exquisite and expensive; and the amaryllis is doubly ditto, ditto; and ixias, and many more are to be grown, if you have room, money, or opportunity."