amaryllis

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

AMARYL'LIS, noun [The name of a country girl in Theocritus and Virgil.] In botany, lily-daffodil, a genus of liliaceous plants of several species, which are cultivated in gardens for the beauty of their flowers.
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