(n.) A plant of the genus Narcissus (N. Pseudo-narcissus). It has a bulbous root and beautiful flowers, usually of a yellow hue. Called also daffodilly, daffadilly, daffadowndilly, daffydowndilly, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) They were a small bunch of daffodils and now they're blooming.
(2) I never saw daffodils so beautiful they grew among the mossy stones about & about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness & the rest tossed & reeled & danced & seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the Lake Wordsworth’s I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud set a new world record for mass recitation in 2004, when 250,000 school children across the UK read his poem inspired by the daffodils.
(3) They've sought fossils in Charmouth, learned to swim at Lulworth Cove, charged up Golden Cap and danced in the daffodils at the top of Colmers Hill.
(4) Wildflowers burst forth again in November, and in December there have been reports of daffodils budding and blooming in sheltered areas, while growers in south-west England are already harvesting brassicas like cauliflower which they would expect to mature in spring.
(5) A report this week about a strawberry grower’s fears over his seasonal workforce was yet more evidence that the corporation is giving too much airtime to “Bremoaners”, when readers of the Daily Mail and other newspapers know that a post-Brexit Britain will be all sunshine and daffodils.
(6) To one side of the house a large grassy bank, covered with daffodils at this time of year, sloped down to the lane.
(7) In the car park outside, busloads of oblivious Japanese and American tourists pulled in for their 20-minute tour of the Wordsworth residence and a visit to the gift shop to stock up on daffodil memorabilia.
(8) Around 50% of the trust's annual £1.4m budget is self-generated, coming from the daffodil mugs and tea towels as well as admission prices.
(9) She has posted a recipe on her husband's website and, campaigning with Mitt on St David's Day in Georgia, wore a dress detailed with daffodils and publicly delighted in a 'care package' of the griddle cakes, sent to her by her daughter-in-law, also of Welsh descent.
(10) The floral-emblem £1 coins, which began last year with a rose for England and a daffodil for Wales, will continue with the addition of coins featuring a thistle for Scotland and a flax plant for Northern Ireland.
(11) A personal favourite is Warkworth, best experienced when the Daffodils are in full bloom.
(12) In the last year I've been a sheep, a farmer, a daffodil, a schoolgirl and a Disney princess.
(13) The fields around the town of Spalding are as green and fertile as ever, the verges are smothered in daffodils and the vast sky that sits above it all is the treacherous blue-grey of the early English spring.
(14) On the other hand, all branched trisaccharides exhibited very similar inhibitory potencies toward the daffodil lectin (NPA)-D-mannan interaction, whereas alpha-D-Manp-(1----3)-[alpha-D-Galp-(1----6)]-alpha-D-ManpOMe++ + and alpha-D-Manp-(1----3)-[alpha-D-Manp-(1----6)]-alpha-D-Man pOMe were somewhat better inhibitors than the other branched trisaccharides of the amaryllis lectin (HHA)-D-mannan precipitation reaction.
(15) Daffodils and tulips and flowering trees.” Clinton isn’t running against a credible Democratic opponent.
(16) They trailed past a row of daffodils and through the dented metal door back into their school.
(17) I still had a job but found myself in a field of daffodils on the Sassoon Estate at Middlesex Trent Park where I made the best decision of my life, to get myself an education.
(18) The qualitative and quantitative distribution of carotenoids of the floral parts of three monocotyledons, the narcissus Scarlet Elegance, the daffodil King Alfred and the tulip Golden Harvest, were studied.
(19) Christine is showing off her mental arithmetic and that daffodil is trying to build its part up.
(20) Death "I had a letter from her about four days before she died in which she said she was going to compere a poetry reading at the Roundhouse , she'd been invited to be on The Critics, and she'd be back at Court Green 'in time for my daffodils'.
Daisy
Definition:
(n.) A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family Compositae. The common English and classical daisy is B. prennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays.
(n.) The whiteweed (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), the plant commonly called daisy in North America; -- called also oxeye daisy. See Whiteweed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Names, and the absence of them, could be important Facebook Twitter Pinterest Don’t look back … Daisy Ridley’s Rey and John Boyega’s stormtrooper Finn.
(2) More recently, Echinacea angustifolia - a wildflower native to North America and related to the daisy - was studied in depth by the Eclectics, a group of American medical herbalists practising from the 1850s to the 1930s.
(3) Many of Long’s pieces are fragile and fleeting: a stripe of un-mown grass in an otherwise close cropped lawn at the Henry Moore foundation , a misty circle in Scotland that lasted only until the day warmed up, a stripe of green grass left by plucking daisies, or paintings in wet mud that dry out and crumble.
(4) They said US forces had found a "daisy chain"– a long bomb rigged up from mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and a motorbike.
(5) It’s great that the new Star Wars film is more diverse , with John Boyega and Daisy Ridley in significant roles; I am pleased to see everyone on #BoycottStarWarsVII gnash and whine uselessly.
(6) Daisy just wanted to work and whenever she got cast in anything we all applauded.” His student film-makers were really excited seeing her pop up on Casualty, he says; imagine how they will feel when they see her lead the new Star Wars film.
(7) No wry observations or whoops-a-daisy trombones to subvert the conceit for period lolz.
(8) He talks up the "experience" aspect of Electric Daisy Carnival, from its dazzling barrage of state-of-the-art lighting to its dance troupes whose costumes are pitched midway between harlequin and hooker.
(9) He sounds fresh as a daisy, which is kind of insane.
(10) This interface required daisy chained controllers for port switching and a communications adapter for flow control.
(11) Is Rey (Daisy Ridley), the young woman striking an unlikely alliance with Finn (John Boyega), the guy in the stormtrooper gear, Luke’s child?
(12) Around this mere handful of works by its hero – which do at least include his sumptuous The Garden of Love (c 1635) and his vulnerable, shivering nude the Venus Frigida (1614) – the curators have strung together a fragile daisy chain of prints, copies and daubs of dubious relevance, and sometimes very poor quality.
(13) Older and shrewder by the late 2000s, the early 90s pioneers involved in Hard Events and Insomniac (the company behind Electric Daisy Carnival) learned how to work with the system, going through the bureaucratic hoops required to get permits, and providing the level of intensive security, entrance searches and overall safety provisions that would give political cover to their local government enablers.
(14) Daisy Sands, policy director of the Fawcett Society, blamed hurdles for women which included "discrimination at the selection process".
(15) Look closer, though, and you'll see Super Soakers pre-pumped by runners, and Daisy Dukes with their top buttons carefully, carelessly undone.
(16) And although that is still very much the case, I was really hoping this could be a movie that mothers could take their daughters to as well.” Where the original Star Wars trilogy featured Carrie Fisher’s Princess Leia as one of the main supporting characters, Abrams has introduced the mysterious Rey, played by British actor Daisy Ridley, in what appears to be a genuine lead role.
(17) Who knows, perhaps soon the concealed British penises of yesteryear might become proudly erect and engirdled with daisy chains wreathed by ardent lady lovers – just like in the novel Lady Chatterley's Lover , the ban on which had been overturned in 1960.
(18) Passenger Daisy McAndrew said she had been caught in the "unholy mess" at Gatwick as she tried to fly to Barcelona for work.
(19) It produced more people like Tom and Daisy Buchanan – the epitome of the idle rich who people The Great Gatsby – than it did the hard-working rich, aware of their social responsibilities.
(20) Daisy Goodwin, ex BBC producer, founder of independent producer Silver River, now majority owned by Sony A historic move?