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Often used colloquially for any yellow daffodil
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jonquil
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Word definitions for jonquil in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, species of narcissus, from French jonquille (17c.), from Spanish junquillo , diminutive of junco "rush, reed," from Latin iuncus "rush;" so called in reference to its leaves. The type of canary bird (1865) is so called for its pale yellow color, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jonquil \Jon"quil\, Jonquille \Jon"quille\, n. [F. jonquille, fr. L. juncus a rush, because it has rushlike leaves.] (Bot.) A bulbous plant of the genus Narcissus ( Narcissus Jonquilla ), allied to the daffodil. It has long, rushlike leaves, and yellow ...
Usage examples of jonquil.
The air was scented with green meadowgrass and purple jonquils, while patches of honeysuckle swarmed with the buzz of bees.
Wild flowers were scattered through the woods, white trilliums, yellow violets, rose pink hawthorn, while yellow jonquils and blue and yellow gentians dominated some of the higher meadows.
And they told him how they picked clothes-baskets full of the wild lily of the valley that grew upon the Boudry slopes, hepaticas, periwinkles, jonquils, blue and white violets, as well as countless anemones, and later, the big yellow marguerites.
He had placed his bouquet of jonquils and his carton of cakes and the bag containing his binder upon the wicker settee put out for sale on the sidewalk.
In the long grass, underneath, a wealth of daffodils, jonquils, and narcissus, came up year after year, and sunned their yellow stars in the light which dappled through the blossom.
He always wore a bouquet of the most strongly-smelling flowers, such as tuberoses, jonquils, and Spanish jasmine.
Ormer Bell writing screenplays with Jonquil Adams and Austin Carl, chatting with Hampton Drane on the phone, a regular rising star, and it could have been her, but she wasn't savvy enough, she wasn't something enough.
Judith could only be glad that she had chosen that morning to put on the jonquil muslin dress with the lace trimming, and the new kid shoes of celestial blue.
In Paris streets, on a March day, he comes across a flower in bloom, a jonquil.
Th’ very little ones are snowdrops an’ crocuses an’ th’ big ones are narcissuses an’ jonquils and daffydowndillys.
Th' very little ones are snowdrops an' crocuses an' th' big ones are narcissuses an' jonquils and daffydowndillys.
I'm currently writing an original screenplay for Jonquil that will really pack a punch.
Lilacs, peonies, and jonquils were arranged in showy springtime displays in tall cut-glass vases.