Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various bulbous plants of the genus Narcissus, especially N. pseudonarcissus, having showy, usually yellow flowers with a trumpet-shaped central corona.
- n. The flower of this plant.
- n. A brilliant to vivid yellow.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The popular name of the Narcissus Pseudo-Narcissus, natural order Amaryllidaceæ, of which there are many varieties in cultivation. The solitary nodding flowers, upon a flattened scape, are of a bright primrose-yellow color, with a cylindrical crown longer than the funnel-shaped tube. The hoop-petticoat daffodil, N. Bulbocodium, has solitary erect yellow flowers. The rush daffodil is another species, N. triandrus, having a short crown and a slender drooping tube.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of a brilliant yellow color, like that of a daffodil.
- n. A bulbous plant, Narcissus pseudonarcissus, with yellow flowers and a trumpet shaped corona; the national flower of Wales.
- n. A brilliant yellow color, like that of a daffodil.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A plant of the genus Asphodelus.
- n. A plant of the genus Narcissus (Narcissus Pseudo-narcissus). It has a bulbous root and beautiful flowers, usually of a yellow hue. Called also
daffodilly ,daffadilly ,daffadowndilly ,daffydowndilly , etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of numerous varieties of Narcissus plants having showy often yellow flowers with a trumpet-shaped central crown
Etymologies
- Alteration of Middle English affodil, from Latin asphodelus, asphodel; see asphodel.
Examples
“When the casita's great wooden doors opened, I faced the beloved church, Santa Maria Magdalena, bright in daffodil yellow.”
“Their impatience at the time a bulb takes to produce a daffodil is only equalled by their distress when the golden trumpet begins to shrivel at the edges.”
“In public she carried off the situation splendidly, saying to all the gossips the substance of what Anne had said in daffodil time, and saying it so pointedly and forcibly that her hearers found themselves feeling rather foolish and began to think that, after all, they were making too much of a childish prank.”
“Principally why you called your daffodil 'The Good Comrade?”
“And have you noticed that the more you say the word daffodil the sillier it sounds?”
“One of the first flowers to bloom in the spring, the daffodil is a symbol of hope.”
“The narcissus, also called daffodil, may be held back until early spring if kept in a cool, dark cellar, but the Chinese sacred lily, which is also a variety of narcissus, comes into bloom from four to six weeks after planting.”
“The daffodil is a clear yellow and is good for cutting.”
“She had stayed her hand because the one who owned the daffodil was a child to her.”
“But he was also a bulb grower, and he was that before he was anything else and afterwards too, and the daffodil was a marvel of nature, a novelty, a thing beyond words to a connoisseur.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘daffodil’.
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common UA vocab. in US
Interesting, there is a traditional vocabulary of an Ukrainian, that differs from vocabulary of average American. It would be nice to explore it.
jackdaw, incongruous, cassock, vivid, magpie, humdrum, amongst, wonder, wandering, wheedling, wheedle, osseous and 368 more...
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Flora
Flowers and plants have some of the most beautiful names.
These are often the common names, as opposed to the scientific or botanical names.daffodil, gardenia, tulip, snapdragon, violet, orchid, bleeding heart, daisy, lily, lilac, narcissus, rose and 278 more...
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The Storybook Words
Words from children's literature that feed young imaginations and spark a love of words and language.
peril, sparkle, fizzle, kerfuffle, lachrymose, heebie-jeebies, turtleneck, peacoat, smarmy, daffodil, snapdragon, grouch and 1 more...
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Mr. Pronunciation's Bad Day
Mr. Pronunciation is an upstanding and reliable sort of dude. He's like the Clark Kent of the pronunciation world. Sometimes, though, he botches up a pronunciation and, you know, he's in a hurry an...
colonel, treacle, cruel, laissez faire, poo, stupid, sashay, concrete, birthmark, chic, draught, gaur and 11 more...
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Purr words
Please add one snarl word for every purr word, in the interests of harmony.
Note: this list is for purr words. Snarl words belong on the other list, not this one. Only purr words need ...bumblebee, kitten, hummingbird, turtledove, felt, daffodil, hourglass, surf, satyr, gloved, honeyed, raspberry and 8 more...
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my favourite words
bilby
For oft, when on my couch I lie,
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my hear with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
- William Wordsworth, 'Daffodils'. Nov 12, 2008
travismcdermott 1855 TENNYSON Maud I. XXII. ii, On a bed of daffodil sky. Mar 1, 2008
anydelirium Botanical name "Narcissus". Sometimes playfully called "Daffa-down-dilly", and mentioned as such in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. Feb 17, 2008
oroboros Ah! A lid off a daffodil, aha! For more see my list:"Dyslexic's Delight". Dec 30, 2006