"Immortal" flower in "Paradise Lost"

Usage examples of amaranth.

But down there, in the fields, the most common crop is a special breed of amaranth that our xenobiologist developed for us.

Rice and wheat were feeble and undependable crops here, but the amaranth is so hardy that we have to use herbicides around the fields to keep it from spreading.

The amaranth is so well-suited to this environment that it would soon choke out the native grasses.

Wonderful that she made a breed of amaranth that makes the colony protein self-sufficient with only ten acres under cultivation.

He got experimental amaranth that Novinha had rejected for human use because it was too closely akin to Lusitanian biochemistry, and he taught the piggies how to plant it and harvest it and prepare it as food.

I have no doubt that the rise in piggy population and the fields of amaranth are what the Starways Congress saw.

Now, however, the amaranth fields had caused them to see that the prairie was also useful land, which they needed to control.

It was the wooden plow, the scythe, the harrow, the amaranth seed that would make the real changes, that would allow piggy population to increase tenfold wherever they went.

But what good were his clubbed hands and shuffling step in the amaranth fields?

It was when the first amaranth harvest came, and there was plenty of food.

And without saying another word she walked past him and Amaranth to a small Italian cafe.

He could taste the strange fear he had experienced every second of that waking dream, even though Amaranth had professed benevolence.

I was somewhere else, and Amaranth was there, and they told me what a lucky man I was.

Over the course of the evening, one of the Amaranth things was revealed to him.

As he stepped up, he saw Amaranth doing the same several carriages along.