Amaranth (disambiguation)

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Amaranth is a common name for the plants in the genus Amaranthus.

Amaranth may also refer to:

Plants

• Amaranth grain, the edible grains of the amaranth genus
• Gomphrena or globe amaranth, genus of plants in the family Amaranthaceae
• Peltogyne, a genus of tropical trees that produce lumber called "amaranth wood"

Colors

• Amaranth (color), a bright reddish crimson rose color
• Amaranth (dye), 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

Locations

• Amaranth, Manitoba, a town in Canada
• Amaranth, Ontario, a township in Ontario, Canada
• Amaranth, Pennsylvania

Organizations

• Amaranth Advisors, a defunct American hedge fund firm
• Order of the Amaranth, a Masonic-affiliated organization

Ships

• Amaranth (barquentine), 4-masted ship in the China trade, built by Matthew Turner, Benicia, CA, in 1901
• HMS Amaranthe (1804), 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), screw steamer used by US Navy as a tugboat in blockade of Confederate waterways

Entertainment

• Amaranth Games, developer of the Aveyond series of video games
• "Amaranth" (song), a 2007 song by Nightwish
• Amaranth, a class of immortals featured in the Jack Vance novel To Live Forever
• Amaranth (album), a 2008 album by Davichi

See also

• Amaranthine (disambiguation)
• Amarant Coral, a Final Fantasy IX character
• Amarantus of Alexandria, ancient Greek writer
• Amarnath (disambiguation)
• Aramanth, in the Wind on Fire trilogy
• Amaranthe, a Swedish power metal/melodic death metal band
  • Amaranthe (album), the debut album by the band Amaranthe