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Definition: Amaryllis |
AmaryllisNoun1. Bulbous plant having showy white to reddish flowers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Amaryllis" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "sparkle". |
Date "amaryllis" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1637. (references) |
Etymology: Amaryllis \Am`a*ryl"lis\, noun. [Latin expression Amaryllis, Greek expression the name of country girl in Theocritus and Virgil.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Amaryllis A pastoral sweetheart. The name is borrowed from the pastorals of Theocritos and Virgil. "To sport with Amaryllis in the shade." Milton: Lycidas, 68. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Amaryllis Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Lilliopsida Order: Liliales Family: Liliaceae Genus Amaryllis Species
- Amaryllis belladonna
Amaryllis (the name of a shepardess in classical Greek poetry) is a plant genus containing the belladonna lily (Amaryllis belladonna), a native of South Africa, which was introduced into cultivation at the beginning of the 18th century. This is a half-hardy bulbous plant, producing in the fall a number of strap-shaped, dull green leaves, 1-1 1/2 ft. long, arranged in two rows which it eventually loses by late spring and goes dormant until late summer/early fall, when it produces one or two naked stems, each bearing at the top a cluster of 2-12 funnel-shaped flowers. This flowering pattern is the cause of its common name 'naked lady'. Most of the so-called Amaryllis sold as 'ready to bloom for the holidays' bulbs belong to the allied genus Hippeastrum, despite being labeled as 'Amaryllis' by sellers and nuseries.
Continuing the theme of name confusion, bulbs of other species with a similar growth/flowering pattern sometimes are called 'naked ladies', even though those species have their own more widely used and accepted common names, such as 'resurrection lily' for Lycoris squamigera for example.
Note: The flower currently pictured on this page is actually a Hippeastrum, not an Amaryllis.
Reference
- Initial text from 1911 encyclopedia -- Please update as needed
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Amaryllis."
Crosswords: Amaryllis |
| English words defined with "amaryllis": Amaryllis belladonna ♦ belladonna lily, Bloodflower ♦ genus Hypoxis, genus Strekelia ♦ hippeastrum, Hippeastrum puniceum, Hypoxis ♦ Lilium candidum ♦ naked lady ♦ Strekelia. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "amaryllis": Neæera. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Amaryllis" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (amaryllis), French (Amaryllis), German (Amaryllis), Latin (amaryllis), Swedish (Amaryllis). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Amaryllis (1959) The Eyes of the Amaryllis (1982) | |
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| "Amaryllis 2" by Warisara N. Commentary: "Amaryllil, Hippeastrum spp." | "Isolated christmas amaryllis" by Jim Robinson Commentary: "A isolated shot of a blooming christmas amaryllis. Some minor color adjustment. ** if you download, please leave a comment, I would love to know what I'm doing right or wrong. I'm new at this photog thing." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Virgil | A sad thing is a wolf in the fold, rain on ripe corn, wind in the trees, the anger of Amaryllis. |
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| "Amaryllis" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Amaryllis" is used about 28 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 85.71% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Noun (plural) | 14.29% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 28 | N/A |
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Expressions using "amaryllis": Amaryllis belladonna ♦ amaryllis family ♦ Amaryllis formosissima ♦ Amaryllis or Sprekelia formosissima ♦ genus Amaryllis. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
amaryllis | 231 | amaryllis growing | 3 |
amaryllis bulb | 22 | amaryllis flower silk | 2 |
amaryllis flower | 16 | amaryllis belladonna flower lady naked | 2 |
amaryllis plant | 14 | amaryllis beach resort | 2 |
amaryllis belladonna | 11 | amaryllis red row | 2 |
amaryllis care | 9 | amaryllis photo | 2 |
amaryllis seed | 7 | amaryllis hardy | 2 |
amaryllis picture | 6 | hotel amaryllis nice | 2 |
amaryllis from grow seed | 5 | amaryllis red | 2 |
amaryllis graphic | 4 | miniature amaryllis | 2 |
amaryllis hotel | 3 | amaryllis umbella poster | 2 |
amaryllis athens hotel | 3 | baby lulu amaryllis | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "amaryllis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Amarilis. (various references) | |
Arabic | نرجس (narcissus), الأميرلس نبات من النرجسيات. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Беладона. (various references) | |
Danish | amaryllis. (various references) | |
Dutch | amaryllis, goudlelie. (various references) | |
Esperanto | amarilido. (various references) | |
French | amaryllis. (various references) | |
German | Ritterstern, Amaryllis. (various references) | |
Greek | αμαρυλλίδα, Αμαρύλλισ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ׀רקיס (Daffodil). (various references) | |
Hungarian | Amarillisz. (various references) | |
Italian | Amarillide, amarilli. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | アマチュア無線局 (amalgam, amateur radio station, amoeba, friend, lover). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | アマリリス . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amaryllisay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | amarílis. (various references) | |
Russian | Пастушка, амариллис. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | amarilis. (various references) | |
Spanish | Amarilis. (various references) | |
Swedish | Amaryllis. (various references) | |
Turkish | Nergis Zambağı, Köylü Güzeli, Güzelhatun Çiçeği. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Пастушка, Амариліс. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | hoa loa kèn đỏ. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Amaryllis, Hippeastrum. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "amaryllis": amaryllises. (additional references) | |
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"Amaryllis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amarelas, amarilis, amarillis, ameryllis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "amaryllis" (pronounced a'meri"lus) |
| 4 | -i" l u s | bacillus, lactobacillus. |
| 3 | -l u s | accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, airless, anomalous, atlas, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, careless, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, frivolous, fruitless, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, querulous, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, ridiculous, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-l-l-m-r-s-y" | |
-1 letter: armillas. | |
-2 letters: armilla, misally. | |
-3 letters: alarms, aliyas, allays, lamias, llamas, lyrism, maills, malars, mislay, riyals, salami, salary, slimly. | |
-4 letters: alarm, alary, alias, aliya, allay, almas, amias, amirs, amyls, arias, arils, aryls, asyla, laari, lairs, lamas, lamia, laris, liars, limas, liras, llama, maars, maill, mails, mairs, malar, malls, maria, marls, marly, mayas, mills, raias, rails. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-i-l-l-m-r-s-y" | |
+2 letters: amaryllises, ambrosially, magistrally. | |
+3 letters: submaxillary. | |
+4 letters: magisterially, prismatically, scalariformly, sympatrically. | |
+5 letters: astronomically, asymmetrically, moralistically, organismically. | |
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