narcissus• My house feels solid and safe and orderly; hyacinths and narcissusbloomindoors here even in the dead of winter.• Alek brought her a cluster of early narcissus and she wore a short white gown with a grass-blade pattern.• They stole my narcissusbulbs that I had been so carefully forcing to bloom in January.• Full mouth, high neck, blue-eyed flower girl, his slenderpalenarcissus.• This was not the only story about the narcissus.• Among flowers and trees he should admire the narcissus, the violet and the orange.• The narcissus is one of two plants around which the story revolves.• With its skirt-shaped cups and narrowpetals, this narcissus is known as the hooppetticoat daffodil.
Narcissusn
nin Greekmythology, a beautiful young man who fell in love with his own reflection when he saw his face in a pool of water. Because he became very unhappy as a result, he gradually became so weak that he died. A flower grew up in the place where he died, which was called a narcissus after him. → see alsonarcissism
Originnarcissus
(1500-1600)LatinGreeknarkissos, from narke ( → NARCOTIC1); because it contains a substance that puts you to sleep