agapanthus

See also: Agapanthus

English

Agapanthus praecox

Etymology

Possibly from Ancient Greek ἀγάπη (agápē, “love, affection”) + ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”)

Noun

agapanthus (plural agapanthuses)

1. Any member of the genus Agapanthus of flowering plants.
   • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, chapter 1, in Jess‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 1948, Alan Paton, chapter 3, in Cry, the Beloved Country‎^[2], New York: Scribner, page 11:

     Here in their season grow the blue agapanthus, the wild watsonia, and the red-hot poker, and now and then it happens that one may glimpse an arum in a dell.

Hyponyms

• (genus Agapanthus): African lily (some species), lily of the Nile (some species)

Translations

any member of the genus Agapanthus of flowering plants

• Chinese: 百子蓮／百子莲 (zh)
• Greek: αγάπανθος (el) m (agápanthos)
• Portuguese: agapanto (pt) m

See also

• agapanthus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• agapanthus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies