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narcissus
Part of speech: NounA kind of ornamental plant of the daffodil family, with handsome fragrant flowers.
Usage examples "narcissus":- No sensible woman, we have been indignantly assured, ever plays at Narcissus with her mirror. - "Prose Fancies", Richard Le Gallienne.
- And I myself, were I not even now Furling my sails, and, nigh the journey's end, Eager to turn my vessel's prow to shore, Perchance would sing what careful husbandry Makes the trim garden smile; of Paestum too, Whose roses bloom and fade and bloom again; How endives glory in the streams they drink, And green banks in their parsley, and how the gourd Twists through the grass and rounds him to paunch; Nor of Narcissus had my lips been dumb, That loiterer of the flowers, nor supple- stemmed Acanthus, with the praise of ivies pale, And myrtles clinging to the shores they love. - "The Georgics", Virgil.
- So also with Narcissus. - "The Note-Books of Samuel Butler", Samuel Butler.