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See also: Daffodil

English

(countable Category:English countable nouns#DAFFODIL) A bulbous plant of the genus Narcissus, with yellow flowers and a trumpet shaped corona, especially Narcissus pseudonarcissusCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Narcissus%20pseudonarcissus, the national flower of Wales.
- c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 290, column 1:
  When daffadils begin to peere, / With heigh the Doxy ouer the dale, / Why then comes in the ſweet o’ the yeere, / For the red blood raigns in yͤ winters pale.
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- 1807, William Wordsworth, “[I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud]”, in Poems, in Two Volumes, volume II, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC, stanza 1, page 49:
  I wandered lonely as a Cloud / That floats on high o’er Vales and Hills, / When all at once I saw a crowd / A host of dancing Daffodills; / Along the Lake, beneath the trees, / Ten thousand dancing in the breeze.
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- 1919 November 20, A[lan] A[lexander] Milne, “Daffodils”, in Not That It Matters, New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Company […], published 1920, →OCLC, page 82:
  Was there ever a more beautiful name in the world than daffodil? Say it over to yourself, and then say “agapanthus” or “chrysanthemum,” or anything else you please, and tell me if the daffodils do not have it.
  Category:English terms with quotations#DAFFODIL
- 1988, “Mayhem Maybe”, in Ian Anderson (music), 20 Years of Jethro Tull, performed by Jethro Tull:
  As us fairy folks sweep from the hill
  Never caught us and never will
  Pulling roses and daffodils
  Mayhem in the high degree.
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A brilliant yellow color, like that of a daffodil.
daffodil:
- a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “Where Ships of purple gently toss”, in Mabel Loomis Todd and T[homas] W[entworth] Higginson, editors, Poems, Second Series, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1891, page 11:
  Where ships of purple gently toss / On seas of daffodil, / Fantastic sailors mingle, / And then—the wharf is still.
  Category:English terms with quotations#DAFFODIL

Coordinate terms

(flower): asphodel, hippeastrum (Hippeastrum), jonquil, Lent lily, star grass
(color): Appendix:Colors

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flower

Category:Entries with translation boxes#DAFFODIL

Abkhaz: аҟәшәҭын (aqʷʼŝʷtən)Category:Terms with Abkhaz translations#DAFFODIL
Albanian: lule e verdhëCategory:Terms with Albanian translations#DAFFODIL
Arabic: نَرْجُس بَرِّيّ m (narjus barriyy)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#DAFFODIL
Armenian: նարգիզ (hy) (nargiz)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#DAFFODIL
Azerbaijani: nərgizgülüCategory:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#DAFFODIL
Basque: nartzisoCategory:Terms with Basque translations#DAFFODIL, lilipaCategory:Terms with Basque translations#DAFFODIL
Belarusian: нарцыс m (narcys)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#DAFFODIL
Bengali: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Bengali#DAFFODIL
Breton: roz-kamm (br)Category:Terms with Breton translations#DAFFODIL
Bulgarian: нарци́с (bg) m (narcís)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#DAFFODIL
Catalan: narcís (ca) mCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#DAFFODIL
Chinese:
Mandarin: 黃水仙 / 黄水仙 (huáng shuǐxiān)Category:Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#DAFFODIL Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#DAFFODIL
Cornish: solzCategory:Terms with Cornish translations#DAFFODIL, liliCategory:Terms with Cornish translations#DAFFODIL, afodil fCategory:Terms with Cornish translations#DAFFODIL
Czech: narcis (cs) mCategory:Terms with Czech translations#DAFFODIL
Danish: påskelilje (da) cCategory:Terms with Danish translations#DAFFODIL
Dutch: narcis (nl) fCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#DAFFODIL
Esperanto: narciso (eo)Category:Terms with Esperanto translations#DAFFODIL
Estonian: nartsissCategory:Terms with Estonian translations#DAFFODIL
Finnish: narsissi (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#DAFFODIL
French: jonquille (fr) fCategory:Terms with French translations#DAFFODIL, narcisse (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#DAFFODIL
Frisian:
West Frisian: titelroasCategory:Terms with West Frisian translations#DAFFODIL
Galician: amarelle (gl) mCategory:Terms with Galician translations#DAFFODIL, merendeira fCategory:Terms with Galician translations#DAFFODIL, aveluria fCategory:Terms with Galician translations#DAFFODIL
Georgian: ნარგიზი (nargizi)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#DAFFODIL
German: Narzisse (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#DAFFODIL, Osterglocke (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#DAFFODIL
Greek: νάρκισσος (el) m (nárkissos)Category:Terms with Greek translations#DAFFODIL
Ancient Greek: νάρκισσος m or f (nárkissos)Category:Terms with Ancient Greek translations#DAFFODIL
Hebrew: נרקיס (he) m (narkís)Category:Terms with Hebrew translations#DAFFODIL
Hindi: नरगिस (hi) m (nargis)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#DAFFODIL, नर्गिस (hi) m (nargis)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#DAFFODIL
Hungarian: nárcisz (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#DAFFODIL
Icelandic: páskalilja fCategory:Terms with Icelandic translations#DAFFODIL
Ido: narciso (io)Category:Terms with Ido translations#DAFFODIL
Indonesian: narsis (id)Category:Terms with Indonesian translations#DAFFODIL
Irish: lus an chromchinn mCategory:Terms with Irish translations#DAFFODIL
Italian: narciso (it) mCategory:Terms with Italian translations#DAFFODIL
Japanese: ラッパズイセン (rappazuisen)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#DAFFODIL
Kazakh: нәркес (närkes)Category:Terms with Kazakh translations#DAFFODIL
Korean: 나팔 수선화 (napal suseonhwa)Category:Terms with Korean translations#DAFFODIL
Latin: narcissus mCategory:Terms with Latin translations#DAFFODIL
Latvian: narcises mCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#DAFFODIL
Lithuanian: narcizas mCategory:Terms with Lithuanian translations#DAFFODIL
Macedonian: нарцис m (narcis)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#DAFFODIL
Malay: dafodilCategory:Terms with Malay translations#DAFFODIL, narcissusCategory:Terms with Malay translations#DAFFODIL, nargisCategory:Terms with Malay translations#DAFFODIL, narjisCategory:Terms with Malay translations#DAFFODIL
Malayalam: ഡാഫോഡിൽ (ḍāphōḍil)Category:Terms with Malayalam translations#DAFFODIL
Maltese: narċis mCategory:Terms with Maltese translations#DAFFODIL
Manchu: ᡧᡠᠰᡳ (šusi)Category:Manchu terms with redundant transliterations#DAFFODIL Category:Terms with Manchu translations#DAFFODIL
Manx: lus ny n'guiy fCategory:Terms with Manx translations#DAFFODIL, lus y ghuiy fCategory:Terms with Manx translations#DAFFODIL, lus ny cam-ching fCategory:Terms with Manx translations#DAFFODIL, lus yn arree fCategory:Terms with Manx translations#DAFFODIL
Moksha: норзякс (norźaks)Category:Terms with Moksha translations#DAFFODIL
Norman: g'zette fCategory:Terms with Norman translations#DAFFODIL
Norwegian:
Bokmål: påskelilje (no) m or fCategory:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#DAFFODIL

Nynorsk: påskelilje fCategory:Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations#DAFFODIL
Occitan: narcís (oc) mCategory:Terms with Occitan translations#DAFFODIL
Odia: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Odia#DAFFODIL
Persian: نرگس (fa) (narges)Category:Terms with Persian translations#DAFFODIL
Polish: żonkil (pl) mCategory:Terms with Polish translations#DAFFODIL
Portuguese: narciso (pt) mCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#DAFFODIL
Romanian: narcisă (ro) fCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#DAFFODIL
Russian: нарци́сс (ru) m (narcíss)Category:Terms with Russian translations#DAFFODIL
Scottish Gaelic: lus a' chrom-chinn mCategory:Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations#DAFFODIL
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: нарцис mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#DAFFODIL, суноврат mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#DAFFODIL

Latin: narcis (sh) mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#DAFFODIL, sunovrat (sh) mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#DAFFODIL
Slovak: narcis mCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#DAFFODIL
Slovene: narcisa (sl) fCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#DAFFODIL
Spanish: narciso (es) mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#DAFFODIL
Swahili: nasisaCategory:Terms with Swahili translations#DAFFODIL
Swedish: påsklilja (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#DAFFODIL
Tamil: பேரரளி (pēraraḷi)Category:Terms with Tamil translations#DAFFODIL
Telugu: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Telugu#DAFFODIL
Turkish: nergis (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#DAFFODIL
Ottoman Turkish: نركس (nergis)Category:Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations#DAFFODIL
Ukrainian: нарцис m (narcys)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#DAFFODIL
Vietnamese: thủy tiên (vi)Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#DAFFODIL
Volapük: narzid (vo)Category:Terms with Volapük translations#DAFFODIL
Welsh: cenhinen Bedr (cy) fCategory:Terms with Welsh translations#DAFFODIL
Yiddish: נעלער נאַרציס n (neler nartsis)Category:Terms with Yiddish translations#DAFFODIL

Adjective

daffodil (comparative more daffodil, superlative most daffodil)Category:English lemmas#DAFFODIL Category:English adjectives#DAFFODIL Category:English entries with incorrect language header#DAFFODIL Category:Pages with entries#DAFFODIL Category:Pages with 1 entry#DAFFODIL

Of a brilliant yellow color, like that of a daffodil.

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