Amaranthus

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Amaranthus - large widely distributed genus of chiefly coarse annual herbsgenus Amaranthuscaryophylloid dicot genus - genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowersamaranth family, Amaranthaceae, family Amaranthaceae - cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubsamaranth - any of various plants of the genus Amaranthus having dense plumes of green or red flowers; often cultivated for foodAmaranthus spinosus, thorny amaranth - erect annual of tropical central Asia and Africa having a pair of divergent spines at most leaf nodes