Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of plants, belonging to the natural order Amaryllidaceæ, tribe Amarylleæ, and type of Kunth's subtribe Hippeastreæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An amaryllis of tropical America (
Hippeastrum puniceum ) often cultivated as a houseplant for its showy white to red flowers.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun amaryllis of tropical America often cultivated as a houseplant for its showy white to red flowers
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Examples
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Amaryllis their botanical name Hippeastrum has never caught on, have now stolen the show from poinsettias as our favourite Christmas plant - and I say thank goodness.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Among genera we find some -- such as Hippeastrum, Crinum,
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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Jonathan Singer in front of his photograph of a Hippeastrum ‘Toscana,’ a new hybrid amaryllis.
Flower Power Kaplan, Howard 2008
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_ Amaryllis (_Hippeastrum_) is altogether too little known in its modern varieties.
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In the genus Hippeastrum, in Corydalis as shown by Professor Hildebrand, in various orchids as shown by Mr. Scott and Fritz Müller, all the individuals are in this peculiar condition.
IX. Hybridism. Distinction between the Sterility of First Crosses and of Hybrids 1909
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We are reminded by this latter fact of the extraordinary cases of Hippeastrum, Passiflora, &c., which seed much more freely when fertilised with the pollen of a distinct species, than when fertilised with pollen from the same plant.
IX. Hybridism. Laws Governing the Sterility of First Crosses and of Hybrids 1909
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What use is it to succeed in hybridizing a Hippeastrum procera with a Pancratium Amancaes, after over six hundred attempts in ten years, and then spend three years a-hand-nursing the seedlings, and then your master won't take enough interest in the thing to pay your fare up to London to the exhibition with 'em?
The Market-Place Harold Frederic 1877
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All the species of the genus Hippeastrum produce hybrid offspring which are invariably fertile.
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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This result has, also, been confirmed by other observers in the case of Hippeastrum with its sub-genera, and in the case of some other genera, as Lobelia, Passiflora and Verbascum.
On the Origin of Species~ Chapter 08 (historical) Charles Darwin 1859
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We are reminded by this latter fact of the extraordinary case of Hippeastrum, Lobelia, etc., which seeded much more freely when fertilised with the pollen of distinct species, than when self-fertilised with their own pollen.
On the Origin of Species~ Chapter 08 (historical) Charles Darwin 1859
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