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Amaranth (other)
Amaranth is a common name for the plants in the genus ''Amaranthus''. Amaranth, Amaranthe, or Amaranthus may also refer to: Arts and media Music * "Amaranth" (song), a 2007 song by Finnish Symphonic Metal band, Nightwish * ''Amaranth'' (album), a 2008 album by Davichi * Amaranthe, a Swedish power metal/melodic death metal band ** ''Amaranthe'' (album), a 2011 album by the band Amaranthe * ''Amaranthus'' (album), a 2016 album by Momoiro Clover Z Other media * Amaranth Games, now Aveyond Studios, developer of the ''Aveyond'' series of video games * Amaranth, a class of immortals featured in the Jack Vance novel '' To Live Forever'' Internet personality *Amouranth, glamour model, and internet personality Colors * Amaranth (color), a bright reddish rose color * Amaranth (dye), a dye used for coloring food (E123, FD&C Red No. 2), now banned by the US Food and Drug Administration Organizations * Amaranth Advisors, a defunct American hedge fund firm * Order of the Amaranth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amaranth
''Amaranthus'' is a cosmopolitan genus of annual or short-lived perennial plants collectively known as amaranths. Some amaranth species are cultivated as leaf vegetables, pseudocereals, and ornamental plants. Catkin-like cymes of densely packed flowers grow in summer or autumn. Amaranth varies in flower, leaf, and stem color with a range of striking pigments from the spectrum of maroon to crimson and can grow longitudinally from tall with a cylindrical, succulent, fibrous stem that is hollow with grooves and bracteoles when mature. There are approximately 75 species in the genus, 10 of which are dioecious and native to North America with the remaining 65 monoecious species endemic to every continent (except Antarctica) from tropical lowlands to the Himalayas. Members of this genus share many characteristics and uses with members of the closely related genus ''Celosia''. Amaranth grain is collected from the genus. The leaves of some species are also eaten. Description Amar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amaranth, Ontario
Amaranth is a township located in Dufferin County, Ontario, Canada, with a Canada 2011 Census, 2011 population of 3,963. It is Amaranth, named after the plant which grows abundantly within its borders. It is bordered by Mono, Ontario, Mono to the east and East Luther, Ontario, East Luther to the west. The hamlet of Laurel is located on the 5th Line (or County Road 12) and 10th Sideroad (or County Road 10). Laurelwoods Elementary School is located just outside this community, on the 6th Line and 10th Sideroad. The township building is also at this location, and has a park with baseball diamonds and soccer fields on its property. Amaranth's system of naming roads is similar to that of the Dufferin County townships of Mono and Mulmur, and the Simcoe County townships of Adjala and Tosorontio. The system names roads running parallel to Highway 10 in Amaranth "Lines." Each is assigned a number from the town line westward in sequence. Roads running perpendicular to the Lines are numbered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amaranthine (other)
Amaranthine, amaranth, or amarantine may refer to: Common uses * Amaranthine (pigment), a betacyanin plant antioxidant and pigment * Amaranth (color), a shade of reddish-rose * Amaranth, a genus of plant Music * ''Amarantine'' (album), 2005 album by Enya ** "Amarantine" (song), single and title track of the above album * "Amaranthine", a 1994 song by Faye Wong from the album ''Sky'' * "Amaranthine", a 2011 song by the band Amaranthe from the self-titled album '' Amaranthe'' * "Amaranthine", a 2014 song by the band Crowbar from the album "Symmetry in Black ''Symmetry in Black'' is the tenth studio album by the American sludge metal band Crowbar. It was released on May 26, 2014 in Europe via Century Media Records and on May 27, 2014 in North America via eOne Music. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amarante (other)
Amarante may refer to: * Amarante, Portugal, municipality in northern Portugal * Amarante, Piauí, municipality in Piauí, Brazil * Amarante do Maranhão, municipality in Maranhão, Brazil * Catello Amarante (rower, born 1979), Italian rower * Catello Amarante (rower, born 1990), Italian rower * Carlos Amarante Carlos Luís Ferreira da Cruz Amarante (Braga, 1748 - Oporto, 1815) was an important Portuguese engineer and architect. Amarante's father was musician in the court of the Bishop of Braga. He began pursuing an ecclesiastical career, but left th ... (1748-1815), Portuguese engineer and architect * Rodrigo Amarante (b. 1976), Brazilian guitarist See also * Amaranth (other) {{dab, geo, surname ja:アマランス (曖昧さ回避) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Amaranthus (1864)
__NOTOC__ USS ''Amaranthus'' was a screw steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a tugboat in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways. Commissioning ''Amaranthus'' a wooden-hulled screw tug built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1864 by Bishop, Son, and Company—was purchased by the Navy there as ''Christiana'' on 1 July 1864. Renamed ''Amaranthus'' and fitted out at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, she was commissioned on 12 July 1864. South Atlantic Blockade The Secretary of the Navy assigned the tug to the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron; but she was kept in the Delaware River performing towing duties, and did not join her squadron until she reached Port Royal, South Carolina, on 6 August. She was assigned to the inner cordon of the forces blockading Charleston, South Carolina; but for occasional runs back to Port Royal to carry passengers and dispatches and to receive repairs, sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USLHT Amaranth
USLHT ''Amaranth'' was a schooner-rigged, twin-screw, wooden-hulled lighthouse tender of United States Lighthouse Service, which served as a vessel of the United States Navy during World War I, and as part of the United States Coast Guard during World War II. Authorized on 30 August 1890, the contract for the construction of ''Amaranth'' was signed on 10 May 1891. Built by the Cleveland Shipbuilding Company of Cleveland, Ohio, at a cost of $74,993.70, the ship was launched on 18 December 1891, the lighthouse tender was accepted by the United States Lighthouse Service on 14 April 1892 and operated on the Great Lakes from her base at Detroit until the United States entered World War I. Service history She was originally assigned to duty on Lake Superior and served there until transferred to the operational control of the United States Navy. Transferred to the Navy by the Executive order of 16 April 1917 which placed the Lighthouse Service under the control of the Navy Dep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amaranth (barquentine)
''Amaranth'' was a four-masted barquentine built by Matthew Turner of Benicia, California in 1901. ''Amaranth'' sailed in the China trade between Puget Sound and Shanghai. She was wrecked on a guano island in the South Pacific in 1913 while carrying a load of coal. Construction Barquentine Amaranth Co. incorporated in San Francisco on Sept. 14, 1901 with capital stock of $76,000 and was assigned state corporation no. 33,965. Captain Turner, a master shipbuilder, was known for his Bering Sea pelagic sealing schooners, codfishing schooners, South Seas schooners, and sugar packets. ''Amaranth'' measured 1,109 tons, and was a sister ship to Turner's 1,167 ton barquentine ''Amazon.'' The ship was named after the amaranth plant. In 1975, a half-hull model of ''Amaranth'' was on display in the San Francisco Maritime Museum. By 1941, the Historic American Merchant Marine project had collected and deposited the complete plans of ''Amaranth'' at the US National Museum. Voyages t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peltogyne
''Peltogyne'', commonly known as purpleheart, violet wood, amaranth and other local names (often referencing the colour of the wood) is a genus of 23 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae; native to tropical rainforests of Central and South America; from Guerrero, Mexico, through Central America, and as far as south-eastern Brazil. They are medium-sized to large trees growing to tall, with trunk diameters of up to . The leaves are alternate, divided into a symmetrical pair of large leaflets long and broad. The flowers are small, with five white petals, produced in panicles. The fruit is a pod containing a single seed. The timber is desirable, but difficult to work. Distribution The species of the genus range from southeastern Brazil through northern South America, Panama, Costa Rica, and Trinidad, with the majority of species in the Amazon Basin. ''P. mexicana'' is a geographic outlier, native to the Mexican state of Guerrero. Overharvesting has caused se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gomphrena
''Gomphrena'' is a genus of plants in the family Amaranthaceae. They are known as the globe amaranths. Species include: * ''Gomphrena agrestis'' * ''Gomphrena canescens'' * ''Gomphrena celosioides'' * ''Gomphrena globosa''—Globe amaranth * ''Gomphrena haageana''—Strawberry globe amaranth * ''Gomphrena perennis'' * ''Gomphrena pohlii'' * ''Gomphrena prostrata'' * ''Gomphrena pulchella'' * ''Gomphrena serrata'' * ''Gomphrena sonorae'' Gallery File:Gomphrena serrata in Hyderabad W IMG 9023.jpg, ''Gomphrena serrata'' in Hyderabad, India. File:Gomphrena serrata in Hyderabad W IMG 9022.jpg, ''Gomphrena serrata'' in Hyderabad, India. File:Gomphrena serrata in Hyderabad W IMG 8870.jpg, ''Gomphrena serrata'' in Hyderabad, India. File:Gomphrena serrata in Hyderabad W IMG 8869.jpg, ''Gomphrena serrata'' in Hyderabad, India. File:Ghomphrena plant.jpg, ''Gomphrena'' grown in Malaysia File:Gomphrena closeup.jpg, Closeup view of ''Gomphrena'' flower in Malaysia File:Gomphrena globosa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amaranth Grain
Species belonging to the genus ''Amaranthus'' have been cultivated for their grains for 8,000 years. Amaranth plants are classified as pseudocereals that are grown for their edible starchy seeds, but they are not in the same botanical family as true cereals, such as wheat and rice. Amaranth species that are still used as a grain are ''Amaranthus caudatus'' L., ''Amaranthus cruentus'' L., and ''Amaranthus hypochondriacus'' L''.'' The yield of grain amaranth is comparable to rice or maize. The grain was a staple food of the Aztecs and an integral part of Aztec religious ceremonies. The cultivation of amaranth was banned by the conquistadores upon their conquest of the Aztec nation. However, the plant has grown as a weed since then, so its genetic base has been largely maintained. Research on grain amaranth began in the United States in the 1970s. By the end of the 1970s, a few thousand acres were being cultivated there, and continue to be cultivated. Much of the amaranth gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amarante, Portugal
Amarante () is a municipality and municipal seat in the Tâmega e Sousa subregion in northern Portugal. The population in 2011 was 56,264, in an area of . The city itself had a population of 11,261 in 2001. The city has been part of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network under the category of City of Music since 2017. History Amarante's origin dates to the primitive peoples that hunted and gathered in the ''Serra da Aboboreira'', sometime during the Stone Age, and extended during the Bronze Age and later the Romanization of the Iberian peninsula. The first prominent building erected during the area of Amarante was likely the ''Albergaria do Covelo do Tâmega'' sometime in the 12th century, by order of Queen D. Mafalda, wife of D. Afonso Henriques. These types of shelter were constructed in small settlements and were used by travellers, especially the poor who transited the territory. Permanent settles fixed themselves around the local churches, such as the Church of São Verí ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
