Associations to the word «Amaranthus»

Wiktionary

AMARANTHUS, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Amaranthaceae   — the amaranths, pigweeds.
AMARANTHUS, noun. Any of the genus Amaranthus; an amaranth.

Dictionary definition

AMARANTHUS, noun. Large widely distributed genus of chiefly coarse annual herbs.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats