agapanthus
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.68 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any member of the genus Agapanthus of flowering plants.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Even the succulent blue lilies—a variety of the agapanthus which is so familiar to us in English greenhouses—hung their long trumpet-shaped flowers and looked oppressed and miserable, beneath the burning breath of the hot wind which had been blowing for hours like the draught from a volcano."
- "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."
- "Seferis, who was just back from Africa after years abroad, seemed to gaze at us between the agapanthi and jacarandas."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Ancient Greek ἀγαπάω (agapáō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-ā́ Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek ἀγάπη (agápē) Proto-Indo-European *h₂endʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₂éndʰos Proto-Hellenic *ántʰos Ancient Greek ἄνθος (ánthos) taxonomic name Agapanthusbor. English agapanthus Borrowed from taxonomic name Agapanthus, from Ancient Greek ἀγάπη (agápē, “love, affection”) + ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”)
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Agapanthus, ἀγάπη