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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of several widely cultivated bulbous plants of the genus Narcissus, having long narrow leaves and usually white or yellow flowers characterized by a cup-shaped or trumpet-shaped central crown.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A plant of the genus Narcissus. See cut under cyathiform.
  2. n. A genus of monocotyledonous plants of the order Amaryllidaceæ and the tribe Amarylleæ, known by its undivided cup-shaped corona. There are about 20 species, mainly European, with narrow upright leaves from a coated bulb; they are favorite garden-plants, mostly hardy, bearing their conspicuous yellow or white, often fragrant, blossoms in early spring, also much employed for forcing. N. poeticus, the poet's narcissus, has white flowers, the crown, edged with pink, scarcely projecting from the throat. N. biflorus, with the scapes two-flowered and the crown forming a short cup, is the primrose peerless of the old gardeners. N. Polyanthus and N. Tazetta, with varieties, have the flowers numerous, and are called polyanthus narcissus. N. odorus and others furnish oils or essences to the perfumer. For other species, see bell-flower, 2, daffodil, jonquil, butter-and-eggs, and hoop-petticoat. See also cuts under daffodil and jonquil.
  3. n. In heraldry, a flower composed of six petals, or a sort of hexafoil or architectural ornament of six lobes, used as a bearing.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Any of several bulbous flowering plants, of the genus Narcissus, having white or yellow cup- or trumpet-shaped flowers, notably the daffodil
  2. n. A beautiful young man, like the mythological Greek Narcissus

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Bot.) A genus of endogenous bulbous plants with handsome flowers, having a cup-shaped crown within the six-lobed perianth, and comprising the daffodils and jonquils of several kinds.
  2. n. (Classical Myth.) A beautiful youth fabled to have been enamored of his own image as seen in a fountain, and to have been changed into the flower called Narcissus.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. (Greek mythology) a beautiful young man who fell in love with his own reflection
  2. n. bulbous plant having erect linear leaves and showy yellow or white flowers either solitary or in clusters

Etymologies

  1. Latin, from Ancient Greek ναρκίσσος (narkissos). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin, from Greek narkissos (influenced by narkē, numbness, from its narcotic properties). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • PossibleUnderscore I'm not sure...
    Jul 28, 2009

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  • PossibleUnderscore Too bad...it really was a sorry sight. Jul 28, 2009

  • bilby I wasn't there. Jul 28, 2009

  • PossibleUnderscore I thought that he gazed at his face in the reflection of a lake, and eventually fell in and drowned.
    Jul 28, 2009

  • anydelirium A spring-blooming flower named for a character of greek mythology of the same name. He was obsessed with his own beauty, stared at a reflection of his face all day and all night. He wasted away and eventually died.

    The nymph Echo was in love with him. Feb 17, 2008

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