AMARANTHUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Amaranthus mean? 

• AMARANTHUS (noun)
  The noun AMARANTHUS has 1 sense:

1. large widely distributed genus of chiefly coarse annual herbs

  Familiarity information: AMARANTHUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMARANTHUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large widely distributed genus of chiefly coarse annual herbs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Amaranthus; genus Amaranthus

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

caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Meronyms (members of "Amaranthus"):

amaranth (any of various plants of the genus Amaranthus having dense plumes of green or red flowers; often cultivated for food)

Amaranthus spinosus; thorny amaranth (erect annual of tropical central Asia and Africa having a pair of divergent spines at most leaf nodes)

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

amaranth family; Amaranthaceae; family Amaranthaceae (cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs)

 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)