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amaranth
(dated, poetic) An imaginary flower that does not wither.
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With solemn adoration down they [the angels] cast / Thir Crowns inwove with Amarant and Gold; / Immortal Amarant, a Flour which once / In Paradise, fast by the Tree of Life / Began to bloom, but soon for mans offence / To Heav'n remov'd where first it grew, there grows, / And flours aloft shading the Fount of Life, […]
Any of various herbs of the genus Amaranthus.
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[A]s she stood by the grilled entrance waiting for an answer to the message on her card, she might have been looking into Hollywood. The bizarre débris of some recent picture, a decayed street scene in India, a great cardboard whale, a monstrous tree bearing cherries large as basketballs, bloomed there by exotic dispensation, autochthonous as the pale amaranth, mimosa, cork oak, or dwarfed pine.
The characteristic purplish-red colour of the flowers or leaves of these plants.
(organic chemistry) A red to purple azo dye used as a biological stain, and in some countries in cosmetics and as a food coloring.
(cooking) The seed of these plants, used as a cereal.