Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An old name for various cultivated species of Amarantus, as A. caudatus and A. hypochondriacus; the flower-gentle.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete The plant love-lies-bleeding.

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  • noun obsolete The plant love-lies-bleeding.

Etymologies

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Latin flos, floris, flower + amor love.

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Examples

  • A breeze, strong enough to gently ripple the lake, hovered around the undulating retreats, scattering a largesse of perfume, and so ministering to the voluptuous floramour of the locality.

    The fair god, or, The last of the 'Tzins 1873

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