English Explanatory Dictionary

amorpha

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any species of the genus Amorpha of leguminous shrubs.

Word forms

amorpha amorphas

Etymology

From the genus name, Amorpha, from Ancient Greek ἄμορφος (ámorphos, “shapeless, deformed”), because the flowers have only one petal rather than the three of other genera in the subfamily Faboideae.

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