[ad. mod. L. Zephyranthes, f. Gr. ζέφνρος ZEPHYR + ἄνθος flower: with allusion to the waving flower-stalks.] A plant of the genus Zephyranthes.
1845. Florist’s Jrnl. (1846), VI. 248. In habit the one-flowered Habranths are the same as the Zephyranths.
