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amarant (plural amarants)

1. Obsolete form of amaranth.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 351–357:

     With ſolemn adoration down they [the angels] caſt
     Thir Crowns inwove with Amarant and Gold;
     Immortal Amarant, a Flour which once
     In Paradiſe, faſt by the Tree of Life
     Began to bloom, but ſoon for mans offence
     To Heav'n remov'd where firſt it grew, there grows,
     And flours aloft ſhading the Fount of Life, […]

   • 1760, [James] Scott, Heaven: A Vision, Cambridge: Printed by J. Bentham, printer to the University, for W. Thurlbourn & J. Woodyer;  […], →OCLC, stanza VII, page 8:

     Thouſands of flow'rs their ſilken webs unfold, / Amarants, immortal amarants ariſe, / Theſe beaming bright with vegetable gold, / And theſe with azure, theſe with Tyrian dyes; […]

   • 1989, Heinz Brücher, “Farinaceous Plants”, in Useful Plants of Neotropical Origin and Their Wild Relatives, Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, →DOI, →ISBN, section 1 (Amaranthus spp.), page 54:

     Such vegetable amarants have a fair content of protein and are rich in Vitamins A and C, as well as in minerals; but they contain also slight amounts of anti-nutritional factors, especially oxalates and nitrates. These leaf-producing amarants are adapted to many different ecological environments.

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• Namrata