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Amaryllis

Gender: F Popularity: this week. Origin of Amaryllis: Greek Meaning of Amaryllis: "to sparkle"
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If you're looking for a showier flower name than Lily, but staying in the same botanical family, you might consider Amaryllis, which is not as outre as it might at first sound. It was used in Greek poetry as the appellations of pure pastoral beauties; Amaryllis is the heroine of Virgil's epic poem Ecologues, after whom the flower was named. Other references are characters in the George Bernard Shaw play Back to Methuselah and The Music Man. James Bond-creator Ian Fleming had a half sister named Amaryllis Maris-Louise Fleming, who was a noted British cellist.

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Daughter of Angelica Garnett, niece of Virginia Woolf and an artist and writer in her own right
Character in "The Music Man"

There is a Shinedow song (and album) titled Amaryllis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWGRicE_Lxg

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