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amaranthine (adjective), more amaranthine, most amaranthine
1. Relating to the annual plant amaranth, which has tiny flowers with colors of deep purple-red or green: Toby put the tiny amaranthine grains into his cereal for breakfast because he knew that they were very healthy for him.
2. Eternally beautiful and unfading; everlasting: Sharon was a woman of amaranthine loveliness.
3. A reference to an imaginary flower that never fades: In the story Janet was reading, the princess was told to find an amaranthine blossom which would keep her young forever, just as the blossom would never become pale and wither away.
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2. Eternally beautiful and unfading; everlasting: Sharon was a woman of amaranthine loveliness.
3. A reference to an imaginary flower that never fades: In the story Janet was reading, the princess was told to find an amaranthine blossom which would keep her young forever, just as the blossom would never become pale and wither away.
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antho-, anth-, anthero-, anther-, -antherous, -anthemous, -anthic, -anthous, -anthus, -anthy
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