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NARCISSUS PSEUDONARCISSUS

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Meaning:

Any of numerous varieties of Narcissus plants having showy often yellow flowers with a trumpet-shaped central crown

Synonyms:

daffodil; Narcissus pseudonarcissus

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Narcissus pseudonarcissus" is a kind of...):

narcissus (bulbous plant having erect linear leaves and showy yellow or white flowers either solitary or in clusters)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Narcissus pseudonarcissus"):

jonquil (often used colloquially for any yellow daffodil)

Narcissus papyraceus; paper white (a daffodil having star-shaped white blossoms; often grown indoors to bloom in the winter)

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