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- noun A
fragrant flower .
Etymologies
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From Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀμάρακος (amarakos).
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Examples
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Ascanius 'limbs, and lifts him lulled in her lap to the tall Idalian groves of her deity, where soft amaracus folds him round with the shadowed sweetness of its odorous blossoms.
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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He instances in that mollis amaracus, on which Venus lays Cupid, in the First Æneid.
Dedication Vergil 1909
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At Venus Ascanio plactdam per membra quietem Irrigat: et fotum gremio Dea tollit in altos Idalise lucos, ubi mollis amaracus iHum Floribus et dulci aspirans complectitur umbra.
Kisses:: Being a Poetical Translation of the Basia of Joannes Secundus Nicolaius. With the ... Secundus Janus, John Nott 1812
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