agapanthus

1. 1.

   any of various plants of the genus Agapanthus having umbels of showy blue to purple flowers

   Synonymslily of the Nile

   Broaderliliaceous plant

   NarrowerAfrican lily

   Part ofgenus Agapanthus

Other forms of agapanthus

plural

agapanthuses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about agapanthus

What does agapanthus mean?

agapanthus means "any of various plants of the genus Agapanthus having umbels of showy blue to purple flowers".

How many syllables are in agapanthus?

agapanthus has 4 syllables: a-ga-pan-thus. The stress falls on "ga".

What is another word for agapanthus?

Close synonyms include lily of the Nile. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is agapanthus a common word?

agapanthus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.