Definition of Narcisus
Narcissus, a self-satisfied youth who disdained the addresses of
Echo, in consequence of which she pined away and died, and who, by way of
penalty, was doomed to fall in love with his own image, which he kept
beholding in the mirror of a fountain till he too pined away and died,
his corpse being metamorphosed into the flower that bears his name.
- Wikipedia
Nar*cis"sus (?), n.; pl.
Narcissuses (#). [L. narcissus, and
(personified) Narcissus, Gr. na`rkissos,
Na`rkissos, fr. na`rkh torpor, in allusion to
the narcotic properties of the flower. Cf. Narcotic.]
1. (Bot.) A genus of endogenous
bulbous plants with handsome flowers, having a cup-shaped crown
within the six-lobed perianth, and comprising the daffodils and
jonquils of several kinds.
2. (Classical Myth.) A beautiful youth
fabled to have been enamored of his own image as seen in a fountain,
and to have been changed into the flower called Narcissus.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- Any of several bulbous flowering plants, of the genus Narcissus, having white or yellow cup- or trumpet-shaped flowers
Narcissus
Translingual
- (botany) a botanical name at the rank of genus. Circumscription of the genus will vary with taxonomic viewpoint.
- (Greek Mythology) A hero renowned for his beauty and pride.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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