Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small genus of ornamental plants belonging to the natural order Liliaceæ.
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- noun botany Any member of the
genus Agapanthus offlowering plants .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various plants of the genus Agapanthus having umbels of showy blue to purple flowers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
Jess Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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Photographs by Simon Upton Roses, foxgloves, agapanthus, ox-eye daisies and lilies grow in the garden, complemented by planters made by Haslam.
House of Haslam 2011
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We enter his home, past a neat front lawn framed by white roses and purple agapanthus.
Boutique buds: What underground mom-and-pop growers did while we debated legalization Adrian Higgins 2010
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I discovered that some Shasta daisies and one agapanthus grew out of season for this purpose.
When Animals Speak Penelope Smith 2009
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The agapanthus cluster, stalk upright, bloomed freshly, as if growing from his grave, and stayed that way for months!
When Animals Speak Penelope Smith 2009
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Good morning Frances, I totally agree with you… my garden is the result of my hard work and I have been doing it step by step and I love playing around with seeds, antirrinos, cosmos, hollyhocks, etc and dividing my agapanthus, and reproducing from the cuttings many of my roses.
Did You Really Think I Bought All Of These Plants? « Fairegarden 2009
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Your agapanthus is just magnificent too, your hard labor shows through in the beauty of your own gardens.
Did You Really Think I Bought All Of These Plants? « Fairegarden 2009
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There were signs of a savage struggle -- blood ran halfway down the red Spanish tile of the sloping, 15-foot front walk lined with blue agapanthus.
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This is bordered with huge oil jars and with statuary mounted on classical columns interspersed between plantings of agapanthus, campanulas and roses.
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This is bordered with huge oil jars and with statuary mounted on classical columns interspersed between plantings of agapanthus, campanulas and roses.
qms commented on the word agapanthus
Agapanthus, I learn, is a flower, but, this being Ash Wednesday, if I had had to guess at its meaning I would have thought it named some appliance worn by a desert eremite to promote mortification of the flesh – specifically the flesh of the lower body.
As the solemn season of Lent advances
Rejoice in the burdens God grants us.
Your mortification
Needs amplification:
Your hair shirt extend to agapanthus.
This would be particularly stimulating to the gentials, and thereby hangs a tale.
For context see live baiting.
February 18, 2015