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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An amaryllidaceous bulbous plant, Zephyranthes Atamasco, of the southern United States, with a low scape bearing a single white, lily-like flower.
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WE next entered a vast forest of the most stately Pine trees that can be imagined, planted by nature at a moderate distance, on a level, grassy plain, enamelled with a variety of flowering shrubs, viz. Viola, Ruellia infundibuliformea, Amaryllis atamasco, Mimosa sensitiva, Mimosa intsia and many others new to me.
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