amaranthine, unfading
(adjective) of an imaginary flower that never fades
amaranthine
(adjective) of or related to the amaranth plant
Source: WordNet® 3.1
amaranthine (countable and uncountable, plural amaranthines)
A dark reddish-purple colour.
The amaranth flower.
amaranthine (comparative more amaranthine, superlative most amaranthine)
Of a dark reddish purple colour.
Unfading, eternal, immortal, infinite.
Relating to the mythical amaranth flower that never fades.
Relating to, or having the form of plants of the genus Amaranthus.
Source: Wiktionary
Am`a*ran"thine, a.
1. Of or pertaining to amaranth. "Amaranthine bowers." Pope.
2. Unfading, as the poetic amaranth; undying. They only amaranthine flower on earth Is virtue. Cowper.
3. Of a purplish color. Buchanan.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 November 2024
(adjective) causing or able to cause nausea; “a nauseating smell”; “nauseous offal”; “a sickening stench”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
