- Amarantine
Amarantine can refer to:
*
Amarantine (album) , a music album byEnya
*Amarantine (song) , a song by Enya
* abetacyanin plant antioxidant and pigmentThe word amarantine, or, more commonly, amaranthine, has several, generally related, meanings:
* of, related to, or resembling, the
amaranth genus of plants (including the flowers and grains called amaranth)
* of, or related to, an imaginary flower that never fades
* unfading, everlasting or immortal
* of the colour amaranth - a shade of deep purple-redIt is commonly used in the forms amaranth or amaranthus, in reference to flowers of a specific genus. There is no such word as 'amarantine' in standard English dictionaries, but 'amaranthine' is referred to in Amercian Heritage Dictionary (Houghton Mifflin Co, 2000). However, Enya has derived it from the Greek "amarantos". It has been used in a variety of forms by artists in the past under poetic license (including amarantine and amaranthine), and has been used as a name by at least one band.
External links
* [http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/70429/excerpt/9780521870429_excerpt.pdf] A Dictionary of Literary Symbols, Second Edition. Michael Ferber, Cambridge University Press]
* [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/amaranthine] Fairlex Free DictionaryBased on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection, 2003-2008Princeton University/Farlex Inc.
* [http://www.bartleby.com/61/92/A0239200.html] American Heritage Dictionary of the English LanguageFourth Edition, 2000 Houghton Mifflin Company
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
