amorpha

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.

amorpha (plural amorphas)

1. Any species of the genus Amorpha of leguminous shrubs.
   • 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):

     Billowy bays of grass ever rolling in shadow and sunshine,
     Bright with luxuriant clusters of roses and purple amorphas

“amorpha”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• amphora