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Amaranth is a common name for the plants in the genus Amaranthus.

Amaranth, Amaranthe, or Amaranthus may also refer to:

Arts and media

Colors

• Amaranth (color), a bright reddish rose color
• Amaranth (dye), a dye used for coloring food (E123, FD&C Red No. 2), now banned by the US Food and Drug Administration

Organizations

• Amaranth Advisors, a defunct American hedge fund firm
• Order of the Amaranth, a Masonic-affiliated organization

Places

• Amaranth, Manitoba, a town in Canada
• Amaranth, Ontario, a township in Ontario, Canada
• Amaranth, Pennsylvania, a place in Pennsylvania, US
• Amarante, Portugal, a town in Northern Portugal

Plants

• Amaranth grain, the edible grains of the amaranth genus
• Gomphrena or globe amaranth, a genus of plants in the family Amaranthaceae
• Peltogyne, a genus of tropical trees that produce lumber called "amaranth wood"

Ships

• Amaranth (barquentine), 1901 4-masted ship in the China trade
• HMS Amaranthe, a list of ships that share the name
• USLHT Amaranth, schooner-rigged, twin-screw, wooden-hulled lighthouse tender that served in both World Wars
• USS Amaranthus (1864), screw steamer used by US Navy as a tugboat in the blockade of Confederate waterways

See also

• Amouranth (born 1993), an Internet celebrity
• Amarante (disambiguation)
• Amaranthine (disambiguation)
• Amarantus of Alexandria (1st century AD), ancient Greek writer
• Amarnath (disambiguation)