AMARANTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amaranth mean? 

• AMARANTH (noun)
  The noun AMARANTH has 2 senses:

1. seed of amaranth plants used as a native cereal in Central and South America

2. any of various plants of the genus Amaranthus having dense plumes of green or red flowers; often cultivated for food

  Familiarity information: AMARANTH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMARANTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Seed of amaranth plants used as a native cereal in Central and South America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("amaranth" is a kind of...):

caryopsis; grain (dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of various plants of the genus Amaranthus having dense plumes of green or red flowers; often cultivated for food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("amaranth" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "amaranth"):

Amaranthus albus; Amaranthus graecizans; tumbleweed (bushy plant of western United States)

Amaranthus caudatus; love-lies-bleeding; tassel flower; velvet flower (young leaves widely used as leaf vegetables; seeds used as cereal)

Amaranthus cruentus; Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys; Amaranthus hybridus hypochondriacus; gentleman's-cane; prince's-feather; prince's-plume; purple amaranth; red amaranth (tall showy tropical American annual having hairy stems and long spikes of usually red flowers above leaves deeply flushed with purple; seeds often used as cereal)

Amaranthus hypochondriacus; pigweed (leaves sometimes used as potherbs; seeds used as cereal; southern United States to Central America; India and China)

Holonyms ("amaranth" is a member of...):

Amaranthus; genus Amaranthus (large widely distributed genus of chiefly coarse annual herbs)

 Context examples 

But these are actually red-leaf amaranths (Amaranthus spp.) or other plants such as Red Goosefoot (Blitum rubrum), not true spinach (Spinacia oleracea).

(World's First True Red Spinach Variety Released, U.S. Department of Agriculture)