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Botany

Amaranth
Amaranth
Amaranthus, collectively known as amaranth, is a cosmopolitan genus of herbs. Approximately 60 species are recognized, with inflorescences and foliage ranging from purple and red to gold...

, a genus of plants
Amaranth grain
Amaranth grain
Amaranth has been cultivated as a grain for 8,000 years. The yield of grain amaranth is comparable to rice or maize. It was a staple food of the Aztecs, and was used as an integral part of Aztec religious ceremonies. The cultivation of amaranth was banned by the conquistadores upon their conquest...
Gomphrena
Gomphrena
Gomphrena the Globe amaranths, is a genus of plants in the family Amaranthaceae.Species include:*Gomphrena globosa - Globe amaranth*Gomphrena haageana - Strawberry globe amaranth*Gomphrena perennis - Glyphosate resistant...

or globe amaranth, genus of plants in the family Amaranthaceae
Purpleheart
Purpleheart
Peltogyne, known as Purpleheart, is a genus of 23 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, native to tropical regions of Central and South America, where they occur in tropical rainforests....

, also called "amaranth wood"

Amaranth (color)
Amaranth (color)
Amaranth is a reddish-rose color that is a representation of the color of the flower of the amaranth plant. The color shown is the color of the red amaranth flower , but there are other varieties of amaranth that have other colors of amaranth flowers; these colors are also shown below.The color...

, a bright reddish crimson rose color
Amaranth (dye)
Amaranth (dye)
Amaranth, FD&C Red No. 2, E123, C.I. Food Red 9, Acid Red 27, Azorubin S, or C.I. 16185, is a dark red to purple azo dye once used as a food dye and to color cosmetics, but since 1976 it has been banned in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration as it is a suspected carcinogen. It...

, a dark red to purple dye once used for coloring food (FD&C Red No. 2) but now banned by the United States Food and Drug Administration

Amaranth, Delaware, a town in the USA
Amaranth, Manitoba, a town in Canada
Amaranth, Ontario
Amaranth, Ontario
Amaranth is a township in Ontario, Canada with a 2006 Population of 3,845. It is named after the plant which grows abundantly within its borders. It is bordered by Mono to the east and East Luther to the west....

, a township in Ontario, Canada
Amaranth, Pennsylvania

Amaranth Advisors
Amaranth Advisors
Amaranth Advisors LLC was an American investment adviser managing multi-strategy hedge fund founded by Nicholas Maounis and headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. The firm had up to $9 billion in assets under management and collapsed in September 2006 after losing in excess of $5 billion on...

, a defunct American hedge fund firm
Order of the Amaranth
Order of the Amaranth
Order of the Amaranth is a Masonic-affiliated women's organization founded in 1873. As in the Order of the Eastern Star, members of the Order must be age 18 and older; men must be Master Masons; and women must be related to Masons as wives, mothers, daughters, widows, sisters, nieces, aunts, et...

, a Masonic-affiliated organization

Amaranth (barquentine)
Amaranth (barquentine)
Amaranth was a four-masted barquentine built by Matthew Turner of Benicia, California in 1901. Amaranth sailed in the China trade between Puget Sound and Shanghai. She was wrecked on a guano island in the South Pacific in 1913 while carrying a load of coal.-Construction:Barquentine Amaranth Co....

, 4-masted ship in the China trade, built by Matthew Turner, Benicia, CA, in 1901
HMS Amaranthe (1804)
HMS Amaranthe (1804)
HMS Amaranthe was an 18-gun Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop built by John Dudman at Deptford Wharf and launched in 1804. She served in the Caribbean, taking part in two actions that gained those members of her crew that survived until 1847 the Naval General Service Medal...

, 18-gun Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop
USLHT Amaranth, schooner-rigged, twin-screw, wooden-hulled lighthouse tender that served in both World Wars
USS Amaranthus (1864)
USS Amaranthus (1864)
USS Amaranthus was a screw steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a tugboat in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways.- Commissioned at Philadelphia in 1864 :...

, screw steamer used by US Navy as a tugboat in blockade of Confederate waterways

Amaranth Games, developer of the Aveyond series of video games
Amaranth (song)
Amaranth (song)
-Charts performance:"Amaranth" is Nightwish's most successful single reaching number 1 in Spain, Hungary, Norway and Finland. It went straight to number one in Finland and stayed at number 1 for 3 weeks, dropping to number 2 in its fourth week on the chart. "Amaranth" then returned to the top spot...

, a song by Nightwish
Amaranth, a class of immortals featured in the Jack Vance novel To Live Forever
To Live Forever (novel)
To Live Forever is a science fiction novel by Jack Vance, first published in 1956. In the Vance Integral Edition, it was retitled Clarges.-Plot summary:...
The Amaranth Vale, a location in Jim Butcher's Codex Alera
Codex Alera
Codex Alera is a fantasy book series by Jim Butcher. The series chronicles the coming-of-age of a young man named Tavi in the realm of Alera, an empire similar to Rome, on the world of Carna. Every Aleran has some degree of command over elemental forces or spirits called furies, save for Tavi, who...

novels