purple amaranth

Questions about purple amaranth

What does purple amaranth mean?

purple amaranth means "tall showy tropical American annual having hairy stems and long spikes of usually red flowers above leaves deeply flushed with purple; seeds often used as cereal".

What is another word for purple amaranth?

Close synonyms include prince's-feather, gentleman's-cane, prince's-plume, red amaranth, Amaranthus cruentus. 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 purple amaranth a common word?

purple amaranth 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.