amaranth
/ˈaməranθ
/noun
1A plant of a chiefly tropical family that includes love-lies-bleeding.
- Family Amaranthaceae: several genera, especially Amaranthus.
- Like other members of the amaranth family it is nutritious and highly decorative with reddish-purple markings on the stems.
- The genus Celosia, of the amaranth family, offers blooms that satisfy the florist or gardener who's looking for a more unusual plant.
2A purple colour.Then the dyed cloth becomes black and shines with amaranth....
- The grey and the amaranth show on the surface through the beige.
- It is intense ruby in colour, tending towards a lively amaranth.
Derivatives
amaranthine
/ adjective ...- As I'm learning more and more about Judaism, I'm finding that there is an amaranthine well of knowledge for me to uncover.
- In the amaranthine blackness, there were no days, and there were no years.
- She returned her gaze to the sunset, washing everything in tones of red and amaranthine.
Origin
Mid 16th century: from French amarante or modern Latin amaranthus, alteration (on the pattern of plant names ending in -anthus, from Greek anthos 'flower') of Latin amarantus, from Greek amarantos 'not fading'.