amaryllis n.

autumn-flowering bulb, 1794, adopted by Linnaeus from Latin, from Greek Amaryllis, a typical name of a country girl or shepherdess (in Theocritus, Virgil, Ovid, etc.), from amaryssein "to sparkle, twinkle, glance," as the eye, a word which according to Beekes "may well be of Pre-Greek origin."