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What does amaranth mean?

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  1. Any of various herbs, of the genus Amaranthus.
  2. Their flowers' characteristic purplish red color; a red to purple azo dye used as a food colouring and in cosmetics.
  3. The seed of these plants, used as a cereal.
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Love-in-a mist, four-o'clock, cosmos, nasturtium, globe amaranth, balsam, and larkspur are a few I remember from childhood.
The grain amaranth has nine times more calcium than wheat, and 40 times more calcium than rice.
Now you can choose from mixtures of whole barley, buckwheat, triticale, amaranth, rye, kamut, and more.
Like other members of the amaranth family it is nutritious and highly decorative with reddish-purple markings on the stems.
This food grouping includes corn, beans, and squash, but is also enriched by the addition of chilies, cactus, maguey, and amaranth.
Wheat alternatives are buckwheat, rye, rice, oat, barley, amaranth, quinoa, and corn.

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