daffodil

Meanings

Adjective

• Of a brilliant yellow color, like that of a daffodil.

Noun

• A bulbous plant of the genus Narcissus, with yellow flowers and a trumpet shaped corona, especially Narcissus pseudonarcissus (species), the national flower of Wales.
• A brilliant yellow color, like that of a daffodil.

Origin

• Variant of Middle English affodill, from Medieval Latin affodillus, from Latin asphodelus, from Ancient Greek ἀσφόδελος, of Pre-Greek origin. The initial d- is perhaps from merging of the article in Dutch de affodil, the Netherlands being a source for bulbs. (Compare adder, apron, newt, nickname, orange and umpire)