agapanthus

See also: Agapanthus

English

Agapanthus praecox

Etymology

Possibly from Ancient Greek ἀγάπη (agápē, “love, affection”) + ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”)

Noun

agapanthus (plural agapanthuses)

Any member of the genus Agapanthus of flowering plants.
- 1887, H. Rider Haggard, Jess, Chapter 1,
  Even the succulent blue lilies—a variety of the agapanthus which is so familiar to us in English greenhouses—hung their long trumpet-shaped flowers and looked oppressed and miserable, beneath the burning breath of the hot wind which had been blowing for hours like the draught from a volcano.
- 1948, Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country, New York: Scribner, Chapter 3, p. 11,
  Here in their season grow the blue agapanthus, the wild watsonia, and the red-hot poker, and now and then it happens that one may glimpse an arum in a dell.

Hyponyms

(genus Agapanthus): African lily (some species), lily of the Nile (some species)

Translations

any member of the genus Agapanthus of flowering plants

Greek: αγάπανθος (el) m (agápanthos)

Portuguese: agapanto (pt) m

See also

agapanthus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
agapanthus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

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