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amaryllis (iou)



amaryllis noun. L18.
[mod. Latin, use of Latin Amaryllis from Greek Amarullis, a country girl in Theocritus, Virgil, and Ovid.]
A bulbous plant of the genus Amaryllis, or formerly of this genus, which now contains only one species (the southern African A. belladonna, belladonna lily).
? Many species have been transferred to other genera, notably Hippeastrum.