red amaranth

Questions about red amaranth

What does red amaranth mean?

red 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 red amaranth?

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

red 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.