Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several chiefly tropical American bulbous plants of the genus Hippeastrum, grown as ornamentals for their large, showy, funnel-shaped, variously colored flowers.
- noun Any of several similar or related plants.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of bulbous plants, natural order Amaryllidaceœ, with large, bright-colored, lilyshaped flowers upon a stout scape.
- noun [lowercase] A plant of this genus.
- noun 3. In zoology, a genus of crustaceans.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A pastoral sweetheart.
- noun A family of plants much esteemed for their beauty, including the narcissus, jonquil, daffodil, agave, and others.
- noun A genus of the same family, including the Belladonna lily.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The Belladonna lily
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun bulbous plant having showy white to reddish flowers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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With my office covered in amaryllis and tulips, I've been grinning all day long!
Spring is Springing! Anne-Marie 2008
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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.
Gardening by Myself 1872
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Of all flowering bulbs, the amaryllis is the easiest to force a flower.
WN.com - Articles related to Holiday among nature a reason to give thanks 2009
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Of all flowering bulbs, the amaryllis is the easiest to force a flower.
WN.com - Articles related to Holiday among nature a reason to give thanks 2009
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Of all flowering bulbs, the amaryllis is the easiest to force a flower.
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Of all flowering bulbs, the amaryllis is the easiest to force a flower.
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Of all flowering bulbs, the amaryllis is the easiest to force a flower.
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Of all flowering bulbs, the amaryllis is the easiest to force a flower.
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If cut flowers strike you as too ephemeral, perhaps you'd prefer giving a houseplant such as amaryllis, cyclamen, African violet, paper-white narcissus, orchid, Boston fern, florist hydrangea, hibiscus, crown of thorns Euphorbia milii or spider plant.
Say it with your own arrangement - or cutting garden - of flowers Joel M. Lerner 2011
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Vomiting, diarrhea and lethargy are common signs when cats ingest plants such as amaryllis, mistletoe and holly.
SFGate: Top News Stories Karl E. Jandrey 2010
jaime_d commented on the word amaryllis
"Through this bar wafts a languorous aroma of amaryllis." Gilbert Adair translation of Georges Perec's La Disparition
August 11, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word amaryllis
"Used in classical pastoral poetry as a conventional name for a shepherdess." --AHD
May 21, 2012