different between agapanthus vs clivia

English

Etymology

Possibly from Ancient Greek ????? (agáp?, “love, affection”) + ????? (ánthos, “flower”)

Noun

agapanthus (plural agapanthuses)

1. Any member of the genus Agapanthus of flowering plants.
   • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, Jess, Chapter 1,^[1]

     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.

   • 1948, Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country, New York: Scribner, Chapter 3, p. 11,^[2]

     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.

Hyponyms

• (genus Agapanthus): African lily (some species), lily of the Nile (some species)

Translations

See also

• agapanthus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• agapanthus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

English

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

clivia (plural clivias)

1. (botany) Any plant of the genus Clivia, native to southern Africa.

Synonyms

• (genus of plants): kaffir lily

See also

• clivia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• clivia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies