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Amaranth is a red
Red

Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength range of roughly 625?740 Nanometer....
dish-rose
Rose (color)

Rose is the color halfway between red and magenta on the HSV color space, on which it is at hue angle of 330 degrees.Rose has 67% red and 33% blue ....
 color
Color

Color or colour is the visual perception property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, yellow, blue and others....
 that is a representation of the color of the flower
Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproduction structure found in flowering plants . The biological function of a flower is to mediate the union of male sperm with female ovum in order to produce seeds....
 of the amaranth
Amaranth

Amaranthus, collectively known as amaranth or pigweed, is a cosmopolitan genus of herbs. Approximately 60 species are presently recognized, with inflorescences and foliage ranging from purple and red to gold....
 plant. The color shown is the color of the red amaranth flower (the color normally considered amaranth), but there are other varieties of amaranth that have other colors of amaranth flowers; these colors are also shown below.

color amaranth is displayed at right.






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Amaranth is a red
Red

Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength range of roughly 625?740 Nanometer....
dish-rose
Rose (color)

Rose is the color halfway between red and magenta on the HSV color space, on which it is at hue angle of 330 degrees.Rose has 67% red and 33% blue ....
 color
Color

Color or colour is the visual perception property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, yellow, blue and others....
 that is a representation of the color of the flower
Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproduction structure found in flowering plants . The biological function of a flower is to mediate the union of male sperm with female ovum in order to produce seeds....
 of the amaranth
Amaranth

Amaranthus, collectively known as amaranth or pigweed, is a cosmopolitan genus of herbs. Approximately 60 species are presently recognized, with inflorescences and foliage ranging from purple and red to gold....
 plant. The color shown is the color of the red amaranth flower (the color normally considered amaranth), but there are other varieties of amaranth that have other colors of amaranth flowers; these colors are also shown below.

Amaranth

The color amaranth is displayed at right. This color is also called amaranth red to distinguish it from the varying colors of other varieties of the amaranth flower.

This color is similar to printer's magenta
Magenta

Magenta is a purplish pink color evoked by lights with less power in yellowish-green wavelengths than in blue and red wavelengths . In light experiments, magenta can be produced by removing the lime-green wavelengths from white light....
 (pigment magenta) (Hex Code #FF0090) (but a lot more reddish). It is the color of the flower of those amaranth
Amaranth

Amaranthus, collectively known as amaranth or pigweed, is a cosmopolitan genus of herbs. Approximately 60 species are presently recognized, with inflorescences and foliage ranging from purple and red to gold....
 plants that have amaranth red colored flowers.

The first recorded use of amaranth as a color name in English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 was in 1690.

Etymology

The name amaranth comes from the Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
 a (not) + marainean (to waste away), i.e., a flower that never died that was believed to grow on Mount Olympus.

Color variations


Pale Amaranth Pink


The color pale amaranth pink is displayed at right. This is the color of pale pink amaranth flowers.

Amaranth Pink


The color amaranth pink is displayed at right. This is the color of pink amaranth flowers.

The first recorded use of amaranth pink as a color name in English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 was in 1905.

Radical Red (Bright Amaranth Pink)


The Crayola
Crayola

Crayola is a brand of marking utensils, such as markers, chalk, crayons, and colored pencils manufactured by Crayola LLC . The Crayola company was one of the first to make its crayons, chalk, markers, and colored pencils as well as other writing utensils and artistry tools non-toxic....
 crayon
Crayon

A crayon is a stick of colored wax, charcoal, chalk, or other materials used for writing and drawing. A crayon made of oiled chalk is called an oil pastel; when made of pigment with a dry binder, it is simply a pastel....
 color radical red is displayed at right.

This color, which may also be called bright amaranth pink, was formulated by Crayola in 1990.

Amaranth Magenta


The color amaranth magenta is displayed at right. This is the color of magenta amaranth flowers.

Amaranth Cerise


The color amaranth cerise is displayed at right. This is the color of cerise amaranth flowers.

Amaranth Purple


The color amaranth purple is displayed at right. This is the purple color of purple amaranth flowers.

The first recorded use of amaranth purple as a color name in English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 was in 1912.

Amaranth Deep Purple


The color amaranth deep purple is displayed at right. This is the deep purple color of some amaranth flowers.

Shades of Amaranth Color Comparison Chart

  • Pale Amaranth Pink (Hex: #DDBEC3) (RGB: 221, 190, 195)
  • Amaranth Pink (Hex: #F19CBB) (RGB: 241, 156, 187)
  • Bright Amaranth Pink (Crayola Radical Red) (Hex: #FF355E) (RGB: 255, 53, 94)
  • Amaranth (Hex: #E52B50) (RGB: 229, 43, 80)
  • Amaranth Magenta (Hex: #ED3CCA) (RGB: 237, 60, 202)
  • Amaranth Cerise (Hex: #CD2682) (RGB: 205, 38, 130)
  • Amaranth Purple (Hex: #AB274F) (RGB: 171, 39, 79)
  • Amaranth Deep Purple (Hex: #9F2B68) (RGB: 159, 43, 104)


Amaranth in Human Culture


Academic Dress

  • In the French
    France

    France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
     academic system, the five traditional fields of study (Arts, Science, Medicine, Law and Divinity) are each symbolised by a distinctive color, which appears in the academic dress
    Academic dress

    Academic dress or academical dress is a traditional form of clothing for academia settings, primarily Tertiary education and sometimes Secondary schools education, worn mainly by those that have been admitted to a university degree or hold a status that entitles them to assume them ....
     of the people who graduated in this field. Amaranth is the distinctive color for Science.


Art

  • In science fiction art
    List of science fiction visual artists

    This is a list of science fiction artists and illustrators.* Chris Achilleos* Dan Adkins* Arthur Thomson * Wayne Douglas Barlowe* George Barr * Jill Bauman...
    , humans, extraterrestrials, android
    Android

    An android is a robot designed to look and act human. The word derives from a?d???, the genitive of the Greek language a??? aner, meaning "man", and the suffix -eides, used to mean "of the species; alike" ....
    s, or robot
    Robot

    A robot is a virtual or mechanical artificial agent. In practice, it is usually an Electromechanics which, by its appearance or movements, conveys a sense that it has Intention or Agency of its own....
    s who are immortal
    Immortality

    Immortality is the concept of life in a body or soul for an infinite or inconceivably vast length of time.As immortality is the negation of mortality?not dying or not being subject to death?it has been a subject of fascination to human since at least the beginning of history....
     may be depicted as wearing amaranth colored robes.


Finance

  • Amaranth Advisors
    Amaranth Advisors

    Amaranth Advisors LLC was an American multistrategy hedge fund managing US$9 billion in assets. In September 2006, it collapsed after losing roughly US$6 billion in a single week on natural gas futures contract....
     was an American hedge fund
    Hedge fund

    A hedge fund is an investment fund open to a limited range of investors that is permitted by regulators to undertake a wider range of activities than other investment funds and also pays a performance fee to its investment management....
     that collapsed in 2006.


Fraternal organizations

  • Order of the Amaranth
    Order of the Amaranth

    Order of the Amaranth is a Freemason-affiliated women's organization founded in 1873. As in the Order of the Eastern Star, members of the Order must be age 18 and older; men must be Master Masons; and women must be related to Masons as wives, mothers, daughters, widows, sisters, nieces, aunts, et cetera, or have been active members of the...
     is an organization within the Masonic Order.


Heraldry

  • Amaranth was the heraldic color used in the cockade and uniforms of the army of the Kingdom of Naples under Joachim Murat (1811-1814). Murat was famous for his eccentric taste in uniform colors.


Horticulture

  • Amaranth flowers in their various colors are popular garden
    Garden

    A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The garden can incorporate both natural and man-made materials....
     plants.


Literature

  • Amaranth is the name of the otherworldly pantheon that amuses itself by toying with individuals' luck in Tim Lebbon
    Tim Lebbon

    Tim Lebbon is a Welsh horror fiction and dark fantasy writer, and a judge at the 2005 World Fantasy Convention. His short story Reconstructing Amy won the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction in 2001 and his novel Dusk won the 2007 August Derleth Award from the British Fantasy Society for best novel of the year....
    's novella "The Unfortunate".
  • In Garth Nix
    Garth Nix

    Garth Nix is an Australian author of young adult literature fantasy novels, most notably the Old Kingdom series, The Seventh Tower series, and The Keys to the Kingdom series....
    's novel Abhorsen
    Abhorsen

    Abhorsen is a fantasy novel by Garth Nix, first published in 2003. It is the final novel in his Old Kingdom trilogy .Abhorsen features Lirael, who is the recently revealed Abhorsen-in-Waiting, Prince Sameth, who is Lirael?s new-found nephew and descendant of the Wallmakers, Mogget, a bound servant of the Abhorsen line, and the Disre...
    ,     the third chapter is entitled "Amaranth, Rosemary and Tears".
  • Love-Lies-Bleeding (a poetic
    Poetry

    Poetry is a form of literature art in which language is used for its aesthetics and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning ....
     name for the amaranth flower) is the title of a 2005 play by Don DeLillo
    Don DeLillo

    Don DeLillo is an United Statesmerican author whose work paints a detailed portrait of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries....
    .
  • In Orson Scott Card
    Orson Scott Card

    Orson Scott Card is an United States author, critic and public speaking. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction....
    's novel Speaker for the Dead
    Speaker for the Dead

    Speaker for the Dead is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card and an indirect sequel to the novel Ender's Game. This book takes place around the year 5270, some 3,000 years after the events in Ender's Game....
    , amaranth is the only grass in the limited ecosystem of the planet Lusitania.
  • In the novel To Live Forever by Jack Vance
    Jack Vance

    John Holbrook Vance is an United States fantasy literature and science fiction author. Most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance....
    , the members of the Amaranth Society have achieved immortality.


Music

  • Amaranth is the title of a music CD by composer Robert Agis.
  • In the AFI
    AFI (band)

    AFI is an American hardcore punk band from Ukiah, California, California, formed in 1991. They have consisted of the same lineup since 1998, lead vocalist Davey Havok, drummer and backup vocalist Adam Carson, with bassist Hunter Burgan and guitarist Jade Puget, who both play keyboard and contribute backup vocals....
     song, "The Great Disappointment", Davey Havok
    Davey Havok

    David Marchand more commonly known by the stage name Davey Havok, is the lead vocalist of the American rock band AFI ....
     sings: "I can remember. I searched for the amaranth. I'd shut my eyes to see."
  • The Swedish gothic/doom metal band Draconian
    Draconian (band)

    Draconian is a Sweden heavy metal music band formed in 1994 that creates songs of atmospheric, melodic, and emotive characteristics....
     has written a song entitled "The Amaranth".
  • Amarantine
    Amarantine (album)

    Amarantine is an album by Irish ethnicity musician Enya. The album was released on November 22, 2005. It won the Grammy Award for Grammy Award for Best New Age Album for 2007....
     is the name of a 2005 album and single by Irish vocal artist Enya
    Enya

    Enya is an Ireland singer, instrumentalist and composer. She began her musical career in 1980, when she briefly joined her family band Clannad, before leaving to pursue her solo career....
    , and is mentioned in her song Flora's Secret wherein she sings: "Looking up through eyes of amaranthine."
  • It is a song by Finnish symphonic/power metal band Nightwish
    Nightwish

    Nightwish is a Finns symphonic metal power metal band, formed in 1996 in Kitee, Finland. The band has sold more than 4 million CDs, DVDs and online material internationally....
    , for their 2007 album Dark Passion Play
    Dark Passion Play

    Dark Passion Play is the sixth studio album of Finns symphonic metal#Symphonic power metal quintet Nightwish, released on September 26, 2007 in Finland, September 28 in Europe and October 2, 2007 in The United States of America....
    .
  • In the Animal Collective
    Animal Collective

    Animal Collective is a music collective of avant-garde musicians originally from Baltimore, Maryland. Animal Collective consists of Avey Tare , Panda Bear , Deakin, or Deacon as spelled on Strawberry Jam , and Geologist ....
     song, "Cuckoo Cuckoo," Avey Tare
    Avey Tare

    Avey Tare is an avant-garde musician and founding member of Animal Collective. Portner lives with his wife Krist?n Anna Valt?sd?ttir in the Chinatown section of New York City....
     sings: "I can't see the landscape. Please describe its amaranthine haze."


Mythology

  • In Greek mythology
    Greek mythology

    Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
    , Amaranthus was a hunter of the island of Euboea
    Euboea

    For the Greek mythology figure, see Euboea Euboea is the second largest of the Greece Aegean Islands and the second largest List of islands of Greece overall in area and population, after Crete....
    , a son of King Abas
    Abas

    The name Abas may refer to:*Abas , an ancient Greek sophist and rhetorician.*Abas, the ancient writer of a work entitled Troiea from which Maurus Servius Honoratus has preserved a fragment....
    . He was loved by the goddess Artemis
    Artemis

    In Greek mythology, Artemis was the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. She was the Hellenic goddess of forests and hills, child birth/virginity/fertility, the hunt and was often depicted as a huntress carrying a bow and arrows.....
     and joined her in the hunt. But he insulted Poseidon
    Poseidon

    In Greek mythology, Poseidon was the god of the sea and, as "Earth-Shaker," of earthquakes. The name of the god Nethuns in Etruscan mythology was adopted in Latin for Neptune in Roman mythology: both were sea gods analogous to Poseidon....
     as worthless, claiming the bounty of the hunt was superior to that of the sea. For this the god sent a giant wave which washed him into the sea and drowned him. Artemis then turned him into an amaranth-flower, her sacred plant.


Poetry and literary symbolism

  • The color amaranth represents immortality
    Immortality

    Immortality is the concept of life in a body or soul for an infinite or inconceivably vast length of time.As immortality is the negation of mortality?not dying or not being subject to death?it has been a subject of fascination to human since at least the beginning of history....
     in Western culture
    Western culture

    File:Clash of Civilizations map.pngWestern culture are terms which are used to refer to cultures of European origin. This terminology originated as a way of describing what was different about the Graeco-Roman culture and its descendants, in contrast to the older neighboring civilizations of the Middle East, which in many ways continued...
     because the name is derived from the name in Greek mythology
    Greek mythology

    Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
     of a flower that was believed to never die that grew in the abode of the Greek gods on Mount Olympus
    Mount Olympus

    Mount Olympus is the highest mountain in Greece at 2,919 metres high . Since its base is located at sea level, it is one of the highest mountains in Europe in terms of topographic prominence, the relative altitude from base to top....
    . Something that is perceived as everlasting may be described by the adjective amaranthine. (The color peach
    Peach (color)

    Peach is a color that combines pink and orange colors. This color is named for the pale color of the peach fruit. Like the color Apricot , the color called peach is paler than most actual peach fruits and seems to have been formulated primarily to create a pastel palette of colors for interior design....
     represents immortality in Chinese culture, because in Daoism the Goddess of the West is believed to guard the peach trees of immortality in the Tian Shan
    Tian Shan

    The Tian Shan , also commonly spelled Tien Shan, is a mountain range located in Central Asia. The Chinese name for Tian Shan or Tien Shan, may in turn go back to a Xiongnu name, qilian reported by the Shiji as the last place where they met and had their baby as in of the Yuezhi, which has been argued to refer to the Tian Shan...
     mountains.)
  • Amaranth is the name of a long Sapphic
    Sapphic

    Sapphic can refer to:* Related to Sappho, a 7th century BC poetess** Sapphic stanza, a four line poetic form* Sapphic love, related to female homosexuality...
     poem by the great imagiste H.D.
    H.D.

    H.D. was an American poetry, novelist and memoirist best known for her association with the early 20th century avant-garde Imagism group of poets such as Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington....
    , and is based on Sappho
    Sappho

    Sappho...
    's fragment 131.


Religion

  • Roman Catholic bishop
    Bishop

    A bishop is an ordination or consecration member of the Clergy#Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight....
    s and archbishop
    Archbishop

    In Christianity, an archbishop is an elevated bishop. In the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion and others, this means that they lead a diocese of particular importance called an archdiocese, or in the Anglican Communion an Ecclesiastical Province, but this is not always the case....
    s wear robes and zucchetti (sing. zucchetto
    Zucchetto

    The zucchetto , also called pileolus in Latin, is a small cap worn by clergy of the Roman Catholic Church and within Anglicanism . It was first adopted for practical reasons — to keep the clergy's tonsured heads warm in cold, damp churches — and has survived as a traditional item of dress....
    ) (skullcaps) trimmed in amaranth, or wholly amaranth; cardinals
    Cardinal (Catholicism)

    A cardinal is a senior Ecclesiology official, usually a Bishop , of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope....
    , however, wear scarlet
    Scarlet (color)

    Scarlet is a red color with a hue that is somewhat toward the orange . It is a pure Chrominance on the color wheel. It is redder than vermilion....
    .
  • In pagan Hellenism (the religion
    Religion

    A religion is an organized approach to human spirituality which usually encompasses a set of myth, symbols, beliefs and practices, often with a supernatural or transcendence quality, that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life through reference to a higher power or truth....
     of Ancient Greece
    Ancient Greece

    The term Ancient Greece refers to the period of History of Greece lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1100 BC and the Dorian invasion, to 146 BC and the Roman Republic conquest of Greece after the Battle of Corinth ....
    ), the amaranth plant (also called chrusanthemon
    Chrysanthemum

    Chrysanthemums, often called 'mums', are a genus of about 30 species of perennial plant flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to Asia and northeastern Europe....
     and elichrusos) was sacred to Ephesian Artemis
    Artemis

    In Greek mythology, Artemis was the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. She was the Hellenic goddess of forests and hills, child birth/virginity/fertility, the hunt and was often depicted as a huntress carrying a bow and arrows.....
    . It was supposed to have special healing properties, and as a symbol of immortality amaranth flowers were used to decorate images of the gods and tombs. In legend, Amaranthus (a form of Amarantus) was a hunter of Artemis and king of Euboea
    Euboea

    For the Greek mythology figure, see Euboea Euboea is the second largest of the Greece Aegean Islands and the second largest List of islands of Greece overall in area and population, after Crete....
    ; in a village of Amarynthus, of which he was the eponymous hero, there was a famous temple of Artemis Amarynthia or Amarysia (Strabo x. 448; Pausan. i. 31, p. 5).


Video Games

  • In the video game Final Fantasy IX
    Final Fantasy IX

    is a console role-playing game developed and published by Square Co. as the ninth installment in the Final Fantasy series. It was released in 2000 and is the third and last numbered Final Fantasy game for Sony Computer Entertainment's PlayStation....
    , Amarant Coral is a character with red hair; he is also known as "Flaming Amarant", "Scarlet Hair", and "Red".


See also

  • Amaranth
    Amaranth

    Amaranthus, collectively known as amaranth or pigweed, is a cosmopolitan genus of herbs. Approximately 60 species are presently recognized, with inflorescences and foliage ranging from purple and red to gold....
  • Amarantine
    Amarantine (song)

    "Amarantine" is a single by Irish ethnicity musician Enya, taken from the album of the same name. The word means everlasting or immortal. The single was released in certain regions on November 14, 2005....
  • Cerise
    Cerise (color)

    Cerise is a deep to vivid purple red....
  • Crimson
    Crimson

    Crimson is a strong, bright, deep red color combined with some blue, resulting in a tiny degree of purple. It is originally the color of the dye produced from a scale insect, Kermes vermilio, but the name is now also used for slightly bluish-red colors in general that are between red and rose ....
  • Magenta
    Magenta

    Magenta is a purplish pink color evoked by lights with less power in yellowish-green wavelengths than in blue and red wavelengths . In light experiments, magenta can be produced by removing the lime-green wavelengths from white light....
  • Pink
    Pink

    Pink is a pale red color; the use of the word for the color was first recorded in the late 17th century, describing the flowers of Dianthus, flowering plants in the genus Dianthus. Pink itself is a combination of red and white....
  • Red
    Red

    Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength range of roughly 625?740 Nanometer....
  • Rose
    Rose (color)

    Rose is the color halfway between red and magenta on the HSV color space, on which it is at hue angle of 330 degrees.Rose has 67% red and 33% blue ....


External links

    Picture of purple amaranth flower