- Daffodil genus - Greek youth who fell in love with his own reflection - Legendary beautiful youth - 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. - 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.
- A bulbous plant of the genus Narcissus (N. 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.