The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἄμορφος“shapeless, deformed”
- English todayamorpha
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.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekἄμορφος all →
amorphous
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.