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Webster 1913 Edition


Amorpha

A-mor′pha

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Noun.
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pl.
Amorphas
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[Gr. [GREEK] shapeless.]
(Bot.)
A genus of leguminous shrubs, having long clusters of purple flowers; false or bastard indigo.
Longfellow.

Webster 1828 Edition


Amorpha

AMORPH'A

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Noun.
[Gr. a neg and form.]
False or bastard indigo. The plant is a native of Carolina, constituting a genus. It rises, with many irregular stems, to the height of twelve or fourteen feet; the leaves, beautifully pinnated, are of an admired green color, and its purple flowers grow in spikes of seven or eight inches long. Of this plant has been made a course kind of indigo.

Definition 2024


Amorpha

Amorpha

See also: amorpha

Translingual

Amorpha nana (family Faboideae)
Amorpha juglandis (family Sphingidae)

Proper noun

Amorpha f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Fabaceae – the false indigos, plants whose flowers lack the wing and keel petals typical of other members of the Faboideae.
  2. A taxonomic genus within the family Sphingidae – certain moths.

amorpha

amorpha

See also: Amorpha

English

Amorpha fruiticosa

Noun

amorpha (plural amorphas)

  1. Any species of the genus Amorpha of leguminous shrubs.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Longfellow to this entry?)