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
Places
- Amaranth, Manitoba, a town in Canada
- Amaranth, Ontario, a township in Ontario, Canada
- Amaranth, Pennsylvania
. Amarante , a town in the North of Portugal.
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
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