Jonquil

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  • noun. Any of several yellow-flowered daffodils, especially Narcissus jonquilla, having long narrow leaves and fragrant flowers with a short corona.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An ornamental plant, the Narcissus Jonquilla, of the natural order Amaryllidaceœ; the rush-leafed daffodil.
  • noun. A light-yellow color of the Sèvres porcelain; also, a similar color in other porcelains.
  • noun. A variety of the domesticated canary-bird.
  • noun. A light-yellow color much favored in the French mural decoration of the eighteenth century.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A bulbous plant of the genus Narcissus (Narcissus Jonquilla), allied to the daffodil. It has long, rushlike leaves, and yellow or white fragrant flowers. The root has emetic properties. It is sometimes called the rush-leaved daffodil. See Illust. of corona.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A fragrant bulb flower (Narcissus jonquilla).
  • noun. A species of daffodil.
  • noun. A shade of yellow.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. often used colloquially for any yellow daffodil
  • noun. widely cultivated ornamental plant native to southern Europe but naturalized elsewhere having fragrant yellow or white clustered flowers
    • Word Usage
    "[Page 99] carnadined the face under a certain jonquil-trimmed hat."
    Equivalent
    jonquille  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    daffodil  narcissus  narcissus pseudonarcissus  
    Same Context
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    variant
    corona  rush-leaved daffodil  
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