Word Meanings - AMARANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Amaranth, 1. Milton.

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• AMARANTH
  A genus of ornamental annual plants of many species, with green, purplish, or crimson flowers. 2. A color inclining to purple. (more info) its flowers do not soon wither: cf. F. amarante. The spelling with th seems to be due to confusion with
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• AMARANTHINE
  1. Of or pertaining to amaranth. "Amaranthine bowers." Pope. 2. Unfading, as the poetic amaranth; undying. They only amaranthine flower on earth Is virtue. Cowper. 3. Of a purplish color. Buchanan.
• AMARANTHUS; AMARANTUS
  See AMARANTH
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.