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Amaryllis

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Noun

1. amaryllis

bulbous plant having showy white to reddish flowers

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Amaryllis

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noun
1. Also called: belladonna lily
an amaryllidaceous plant, Amaryllis belladonna, native to southern Africa and having large lily-like reddish or white flowers
2. 
any of several related plants, esp hippeastrum
noun
(in pastoral poetry) a name for a shepherdess or country girl

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Amaryllis

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noun
any of several plants (esp. genus Hippeastrum) of the lily family bearing several white, purple, pink, or red flowers on a leafless stem, including the belladonna lily

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Amaryllis

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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.
2. See belladonna lily.
3. Any of several similar or related plants.

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