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Narcissus — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • narcissus noun A flowering bulb plant with white or yellow trumpet-shaped blooms, including the daffodil.

Senses

Narcissus is used for these senses in English:

  • Narcissus (Greek mythology) A youth who spurned the love of Echo and fell in love with his own reflection in a pool: in some versions of the myth, he drowned trying to reach it, while in others he sat fixated until a god took pity and transformed him into a flower.

narcissus — full definition

  1. noun A flowering bulb plant with white or yellow trumpet-shaped blooms, including the daffodil.
  2. name A youth in Greek mythology who fell in love with his own reflection.

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