globe amaranth

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noun

a plant, Gomphrena globosa, native to the Old World tropics, having dense heads of variously colored flowers that retain their color when cut.

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Origin of globe amaranth

First recorded in 1725–35; so called from the globose flower head

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How to use globe amaranth in a sentence

And the series was implausibly shut out by both the Golden Globe and SAG Awards.
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The wives have been traveling for years across the globe to bring attention to the case.
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Cricket is a sport enjoyed by hundreds of millions around the globe, mainly in former British colonies.
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Pan Am was once an imperial power in its own right, girdling the globe.
Goodbye, Bahamas. Hello, Havana!|Clive Irving|December 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Congratulations on your Golden Globe nomination for Best Director.
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This immense and magnificent globe diffuses heat and light to all the other planets.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
This was the first small beginning of that great tourist business which now encircles the habitable globe.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
I was but very recently married, I said, and how could I leave my wife to go to the other side of the globe alone?
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
There seems to have been then only one climate over the whole globe, caused, no doubt, by the internal heat of the earth.
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It was not till the summer of 1698 that all was ready for the expedition which was to change the face of the globe.
The History of England from the Accession of James II.|Thomas Babington Macaulay