Meaning of agapanthus | Babel Free

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Any member of the genus Agapanthus of flowering plants.

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“Agapanthi and hydrangeas bloom on brown-stone front steps, and an occasional elm wears majestically its century of age, and extends its kindly and dignified protection to the emerald-turfed croquet ground nestling at its feet.”

“Even the succulent blue lilies—a variety of the agapanthus which is so familiar to us in English greenhouses—hung their long trumpet-shaped flowers and looked oppressed and miserable, beneath the burning breath of the hot wind which had been blowing for hours like⟳ the draught from a volcano.”

“Here in their season grow⟳ the blue agapanthus, the wild watsonia, and the red-hot poker, and now and then it happens that one may glimpse an arum in a dell.”

“Seferis, who was just back from Africa after years abroad, seemed to gaze at us between the agapanthi and jacarandas.”

“Peregrina chatted with animation about the flowers she would sow⟳ around it, azaleas, lilies, agapanthi, and the vegetables she could plant⟳ in the open⟳ spaces, and enough garlic to make⟳ the earth smell⟳ like⟳ broth.”

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