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hippeastrum Bot.|hɪpɪˈæstrəm|
[mod.L. (see quot. 1821), f. Gr. ἱππεύς horseman, knight + ἄστρον star.]
A member of the genus of South American bulbous plants so named, belonging to the family Amaryllidaceæ; the knight's star lily.
1821W. Herbert in Bot. Reg. VII. App. 7 Other points of agreement with Crinum separate them [sc. the plants] still more widely from the occidental bulbs which I have heretofore called Amaryllis, but in deference to the type of Linnæus, proposed now to call Hippeastrum or Knight's-star-lily. 1866[see amaryllis]. 1899Daily News 16 Mar. 9/2 An immense stand of hippeastrums..carried off the palm in the shape of the society's gold medal. 1938A. G. L. Hellyer Your Garden Week by Week 102 Start the remaining hippeastrum bulbs into growth now. 1961Amateur Gardening 30 Sept. 6/2 Another plant to be rested is the hippeastrum—or, as many still prefer to call it, the amaryllis. |