amorpha

See also: Amorpha

English

Amorpha fruiticosa

Etymology

From the genus name, Amorpha, from Ancient Greek ἄμορφος (ámorphos, “shapeless, deformed”), because the flowers have only one petal rather than the three of other genera in the subfamily Faboideae.

Noun

amorpha (plural amorphas)

1. Any species of the genus Amorpha of leguminous shrubs.
   • 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):

     Billowy bays of grass ever rolling in shadow and sunshine,
     Bright with luxuriant clusters of roses and purple amorphas

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: sulkapensas (fi)
• French: faux-indigo m, Amorpha (fr)
• German: Amorpha f
• Polish: amorfa (pl) f
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: please add this translation if you can

References

“amorpha”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• amphora