In botany it is synonymous with Lepidopharynx, Leopoldia or Trisacarpis. It also uses Hippeastrum (meaning knight's star). It is the name of a genus of plants belonging to the family Amaryllidaceae. They are endemic to Africa. Name of the woman Virgil loved in his first bucolic. It means the sparkle in your eyes. Name of an asteroid (1085). It was also named 1927 QH by astronomers.