Agapanthus
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Agapanthus is a noun meaning Any member of the genus Agapanthus of flowering plants.
Meaning
Any member of the genus Agapanthus of flowering plants.
Example Sentences
Seferis, who was just back from Africa after years abroad, seemed to gaze at us between the agapanthi and jacarandas.
Here in their season grow the blue agapanthus, the wild watsonia, and the red-hot poker, and now and then it happens that one may glimpse an arum in a dell.
Peregrina chatted with animation about the flowers she would sow around it, azaleas, lilies, agapanthi, and the vegetables she could plant in the open spaces, and enough garlic to make the earth smell like broth.
Agapanthi and hydrangeas bloom on brown-stone front steps, and an occasional elm wears majestically its century of age, and extends its kindly and dignified protection to the emerald-turfed croquet ground nestling at its feet.
Word Forms
- agapanthuses
- agapanthi
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include aglaonema, aspalathus, bloodflower, amaranthus, acalypha, acanthad.
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