daffodil

• n. 水仙花
• adj. 水仙花色的
• n. (Daffodil)人名；(英)达芙迪尔

来自拉丁语asphodelus, 黄水仙。字母d误以为是冠词de而加在首字母前。

daffodil

daffodil: [16] Originally, this word was affodil, and referred to a plant of the lily family, the asphodel; it came from medieval Latin affodillus, and the reason for the change from asph- (or asf-, as it often was in medieval texts) to aff- is probably that the s in medieval manuscripts looked very like an f. The first evidence of its use to refer to a ‘daffodil’, rather than an ‘asphodel’, comes in the middle of the 16th century. It is not entirely clear where the initial d came from, but the likeliest explanation is that daffodil represents Dutch de affodil ‘the daffodil’ (the Dutch were then as now leading exponents of bulb cultivation).

daffodil (n.)

1540s, variant of Middle English affodill "asphodel" (c. 1400), from Medieval Latin affodillus, from Latin asphodelus, from Greek asphodelos, which is of unknown origin. The initial d- is perhaps from merging of the article in Dutch de affodil, the Netherlands being a source for bulbs. First reference to the flower we know by this name (Narcissus pseudo-Narcissus) is from 1590s.

1. The daffodil belongs to the genus Narcissus.

黄水仙是水仙属植物.

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2. Perennial border such as daffodil, daisy, lily, phlox, iris, etc.

栽种多年生植物(如水仙花 、 雏菊 、 百合 、 福禄考 、 蝴蝶花等)的条形绿化带.

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3. The flower was something in the mature of a daffodil.

这种花有点像水仙.

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4. I was right. On top of a daffodil, sat a bee.

确实是虫子,我猜对了. 在一朵水仙花上, 落着一只蜜蜂.

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5. The flower was something in the nature of a daffodil.

这种花有点像黄水仙.

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