jonquil

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A widely cultivated ornamental plant (Narcissus jonquilla) native chiefly to southern Europe, having long narrow leaves and short-tubed yellow flowers.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. An ornamental plant, the Narcissus Jonquilla, of the natural order Amaryllidaceœ; the rush-leafed daffodil. It is an early-blooming bulbous plant, with narrow, half-cylindrical leaves, the scapes bearing from 2 to 5 small, pale-yellow, fragrant flowers. Some other species of Narcissus are sometimes called jonquil, as N. odorus, the sweet-scented jonquil, and N. calathinus, the great jonquil.
2. n. A light-yellow color of the Sèvres porcelain; also, a similar color in other porcelains.
3. n. A variety of the domesticated canary-bird.
4. n. A light-yellow color much favored in the French mural decoration of the eighteenth century.

Wiktionary

1. n. A fragrant bulb flower (Narcissus jonquilla).
2. n. A species of daffodil.
3. n. A shade of yellow.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A bulbous plant of the genus Narcissus (Narcissus Jonquilla), allied to the daffodil. It has long, rushlike leaves, and yellow or white fragrant flowers. The root has emetic properties. It is sometimes called the rush-leaved daffodil. See Illust. of corona.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. often used colloquially for any yellow daffodil
2. n. widely cultivated ornamental plant native to southern Europe but naturalized elsewhere having fragrant yellow or white clustered flowers