a. and sb. [f. as prec. + -OID.] A. adj. Resembling amarant(h. B. sb. An ally of amarant(h.

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1741.  Compl. Fam.-Piece, II. iii. 357. Make hot Beds for your tender annual Flowers … such as Amaranthus’s, Amaranthoides.

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1879.  Syd. Soc. Lex., Amaranthoid.

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