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am⋅a⋅ryl⋅lis

  [am-uh-ril-is]
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–noun
1. any of several bulbous plants of the genus Hippeastrum, esp. H. puniceum, which has large red or pink flowers and is popular as a houseplant. Compare amaryllis family.
2. Also called belladonna lily, naked lady. a related plant, Amaryllis belladonna, having clusters of usually rose-colored flowers.
3. any of several other similar or related plants.
4. (initial capital letter) a shepherdess or country girl, esp. in classical and later pastoral poetry.
Origin:
1785–95; < L: name of a shepherdess in Vergil's Eclogues
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Am⋅a⋅ryl⋅lis

  [am-uh-ril-is]
–noun
a female given name.
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n.  

  1. Any of several chiefly tropical American bulbous plants of the genus Hippeastrum grown as ornamentals for their large, showy, funnel-shaped, variously colored flowers that are grouped in umbels.

  2. See belladonna lily.

  3. Any of several similar or related plants.

  4. Amaryllis Used in classical pastoral poetry as a conventional name for a shepherdess.


[New Latin Amaryllis, genus name, from Latin, name of a shepherdess, from Greek Amarullis.]
belladonna lily  
n.  A bulbous, perennial southern African herb (Amaryllis belladonna) having showy umbels of large trumpet-shaped flowers that appear in the fall after the spring leaves die back. Also called amaryllis.
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amaryllis 
autumn-flowering bulbs, 1794, adopted by Linnaeus from L., from Gk. Amaryllis, typical name of a country girl or shepherdess (in Theocritus, Virgil, Ovid, etc.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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