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нарци́сс — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • daffodil noun A bulb plant with a trumpet-shaped yellow flower, blooming in early spring.
  • narcissist noun Someone with an excessive sense of their own importance and a constant need for admiration.
  • narcissus noun A flowering bulb plant with white or yellow trumpet-shaped blooms, including the daffodil.

Senses

нарци́сс 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.
  • daffodil (countable) A bulbous plant of the genus Narcissus, with yellow flowers and a trumpet shaped corona, especially Narcissus pseudonarcissus, the national flower of Wales.
  • narcissist (colloquial) An egoist; a person full of egoism and pride.
  • narcissus Any of several bulbous flowering plants, of the genus Narcissus, having white or yellow cup- or trumpet-shaped flowers, notably the daffodil

daffodil — full definition

  1. noun A bulb plant with a trumpet-shaped yellow flower, blooming in early spring.
  2. noun A bright yellow colour, like that of the flower.

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