What is "amaryllises"

Usage examples of "amaryllises".

It signified a colossal ego, a man who might easily have given himself an anther and pollinated amaryllises and neighbor ladies, a man who judged the rightness of his behavior only by his own standards, if he bothered to so judge at all.

Plenty of amaryllises, and I can pollinate them there as well as anywhere.

Just as I expected, every generation of these amaryllises has more human genes, more of my genes.

Like the Alices, like the head house, like the amaryllises Jack had pollinated, these flowers had human genes.

As Jack and Kimmer climbed the stairs and the fragrances emitted by the amaryllises faded, what liveliness they had shown in the greenhouse also faded, until they seemed to move like sleepwalkers, or as if they were puppets that had been programmed to perform a set task with no help from their masters.

They were standing on the landing outside their rooms, staring alternately at each other, the surrounding landscape, and the glass of the greenhouse wall, which reflected a blurred image of the amaryllises below.

Tom wondered if the amaryllises, able to control only Kimmer, and then only when she was downstairs, had replaced or supplemented their pheromones with some enervating tranquilizer.

Within seconds, a wave of fragrance announced that the amaryllises had awakened.

One of the amaryllises had been moved closer to the head of the line, near the largest, and set just a little to one side.

The largest of the amaryllises stirred, and the fan-driven breeze carried pulses of fragrant pheromones past the humans.

They too were responding to the flood of pheromones the amaryllises had unleashed.

Keeping her eyes on the amaryllises and on Tom, now advancing toward the sentient flowers, she explored the edges of the doorway with a hand.

The pheromones she had been expecting, the commands the amaryllises would issue to incapacitate the BRA agents, were not there.

And if the amaryllis lady succeeded in its goal, if it could indeed shape from his mother a half-plant, half-human who could speak both to humans, with a voice, and to amaryllises, with pheromones, she might be more human, but the marks she would bear would be far deeper.

Several of the others laughed, for when the amaryllises had made him display himself, anyone who had not known of his peculiarity had certainly learned the truth.