Amaryllis is a small genus of flowering bulbs, with two species.
Amaryllis may also refer to:
People
- Amaryllis Fleming (1925–1999), British cello performer and teacher
 - Amaryllis Garnett (1943–1973), English actress
 - Amaryllis (Ryllis) Llewellyn Hacon, pseudonym of Edith Hacon, later Mrs Robichaud (1875–1952), British suffragist, WWI nursing hospital volunteer and socialite
 - Amaryllis Knight, co-owner and operator of Falcon Motorcycles
 - Amaryllis Tremblay, Canadian actress
 - Amaryllis, a character in Vergil's Eclogues
 - Amaryllis, a character in Meredith Willson's The Music Man
 
In biology
- The amaryllis family, a monocot plant family formally known as Amaryllidaceae
 - Amaryllis berteroi, also known as Zephyranthes robusta
 - Schinia amaryllis, a moth of the family Noctuidae
 - Hippeastrum, a genus of South American bulbs whose cultivars are commonly sold as "amaryllis"
 - Amaryllis (crustacean), a genus of amphipods
 
Music
- Amaryllis Chamber Ensemble, in Boston
 - Amaryllis (Marilyn Crispell, Gary Peacock and Paul Motian album), 2000
 - Amaryllis (Shinedown album), a 2012 album by Shinedown and its title track
 - "Amaryllis" (song), a 1988 by the Japanese band Wink
 - "Amaryllis", a 1581 gavotte from the Ballet Comique de la Reine by Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx
 - "Amaryllis", a 17th-century air de cour composed by Louis XIII of France; see Ballet Comique de la Reine
 
Other uses
- Amaryllis (catamaran), a catamaran sailboat by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff launched in 1876
 - Amaryllis (given name)
 - Amaryllis (restaurant), in Glasgow, Scotland
 - Amaryllis (ship), which wrecked on the coast of Palm Beach County, Florida in 1965
 - Amaryllis (yacht), built in 2011 by Abeking & Rasmussen
 - 1085 Amaryllis, a minor planet orbiting the Sun
 - "Amaryllis", an award-nominated short story by Carrie Vaughn
 - "Opp Amaryllis!", a 1791 song by Carl Michael Bellman
 
See also
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