Adapted in 5 as amarac. [L. amāra-cus, a. Gr. ἀμᾱρακος, applied to same plant.] An aromatic plant, the Dittany of Crete (Origanum dictamnus), by some made the type of a distinct genus (Amaracus).
c. 1420. Pallad. on Husb., I. 1017. Eke amarac and other fresshed floures.
1601. Holland, Pliny (1634), II. 92. That Amaracus or Marjeram which they call the Phrygian.
1830. Tennyson, Œnone, 95. Violet, amaracus, and asphodel.
