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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of plants, natural order Amarantaceæ, for the most part tropical.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a genus of annual or perennial herbs or vines of tropical and subtropical America and Asia and Africa.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun annual or perennial herbs or vines of tropical and subtropical America and Asia and Africa

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[New Latin Cēlosia, genus name, from Greek kēlos, dry, burnt (from its color), from kaiein, to burn.]

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