daffodil
daffodil
Definition
daf·fo·dil (daf′ə dil′)
noun
- any of various plants (genus Narcissus) of the lily family with a typically yellow flower having a large, trumpetlike corona
- the flower
Etymology: ME affodille < ML affodillus < LL asphodelus < Gr asphodelos: initial d- < ?
daffodil
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- grow: Also important for growing daffodils is a location with good drainage.
- plant: The gardens were established in 1760, with the daffodils planted over a 10 year period from 1947 to 1957.
- see: I may mention I've got daffodils in flower - the first daffodils seen in Mesopotamia.
- include: Narcissus, which includes all daffodils are among the most popular of all garden plants.
- find: It is considered very lucky to find the first daffodil, for you will have more gold than silver that year.
Preposition: in
- springtime: This area is famous for its wild daffodils in springtime.
Adjective modifier
- wild: Wild daffodils grow here In the opening shown in the picture on the left is where in the spring wild daffodils grow.
- golden: Go in Spring for " a host of golden daffodils " .
- miniature: The miniature daffodils are out around our bird table.
- yellow: Where bright yellow daffodils pushed through the white picket fences that lined the streets.
- early: Some of the earlier daffodils are already in bloom.
- first: The first dwarf daffodil, in the patch that we planted in the autumn, has suddenly sprung into flower.
Modifies a noun
- bulb: In spite of a few cold snaps, the daffodil bulbs are pushing out their leaves in the middle of the month.
- bloom: Or will life fade as inevitably As the daffodil blooms slipping away To make way for their summer cousins.
- field: On Sunday 21st a small group headed to the daffodil fields at Kempley.
- gene: This is rice that has enhanced vitamin A content, through transformation with two daffodil genes, resulting in yellow grains.
Noun used with modifier
- dwarf: The first dwarf daffodil, in the patch that we planted in the autumn, has suddenly sprung into flower.
- spring: Here you can to stop and sit among the trees and spring daffodils and watch the world go by.
- plant: Then I go outside with my gardening gang to plant daffodils.
- trumpet: Even more surprising is the absence of awards for ' Emperor ' , the doyen of yellow trumpet daffodils.
daffodil Quotes
Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown, Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone; Maud And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad, And the musk of the rose is blown. For a breeze of morning moves, And the planet of Love is on high, Beginning to faint in the light that she loves On a bed of daffodil sky.
When the face of night is fair on the dewy downs, And the shining daffodil dies.
Browse dictionary entries near daffodil
- daffiness
- daffiest
- daffier
- daffadowndilly
- daffadowndillies
- daffadilly
- daff
- Daemons
- daemonic
- daemon
- daffodilly
- daffy
- daffydowndillies
- daffydowndilly
- daft
- daftly
- daftness
- dag
- Dagenham
- dagga
