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‖ amaryllis Bot.|æməˈrɪlɪs|
[adopted by Linnæus, from L. Amaryllis, a. Gr. ἀµαρυλλίς, name of a country-girl in Theocritus, Ovid, and Virgil.]
A genus of autumn-flowering bulbous plants, typical of the family Amaryllidaceæ, species of which are cultivated as garden or hot-house flowers; applied also by florists to allied genera.
1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xviii. 246 Amaryllis; known by its superior, bell-shaped corolla of six petals. 1834Pringle Afric. Sketches vi. 209 The large purple flowers of a species of amaryllis. 1855Tennyson Daisy iv, Here and there, on sandy beaches A milky-bell'd amaryllis blew. 1866T. Moore in Treas. Bot. 48 Most of the plants called Amaryllis in gardens are now referred to Hippeastrum. |