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

Amaranth, Amaranthe, or Amaranthus may also refer to:

Arts and media

Music

  • Amaranth (song), a 2007 song by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish
  • Amaranth (album), a 2008 album by Davichi
  • Amaranthe, a Swedish power metal/melodic death metal band
  • Amaranthe (album), a 2011 album by the band Amaranthe
  • Amaranthus (album), a 2016 album by Momoiro Clover Z

Other media

  • Amaranth Games, now Aveyond Studios, developer of the Aveyond series of video games
  • Amaranth, a series of role-playing games for the PC-98
  • Amaranth, a class of immortals featured in the Jack Vance novel To Live Forever

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
  • 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
  • , 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)