(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'.
Wales
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The Wales international and Port Vale defender Clayton McDonald both admitted having sex with the victim, – McDonald was found not guilty of the same charge.
(2) Numerical results for the population of England and Wales are shown.
(3) Blood gas variables produced from a computed in vivo oxygen dissociation curve, PaeO2, P95 and C(a-x)O2, were introduced in the University Hospital of Wales in 1986.
(4) Any party or witness is entitled to use Welsh in any magistrates court in Wales without prior notice.
(5) It may not point to independence – nor, given that large swaths of Wales remain firmly dominated by Labour, mean any huge advance for Plaid Cymru.
(6) Harry was 12 years old when Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash but said it was not until his late 20s, after two years of “total chaos”, that he processed the grief.
(7) Hospitals in Wales collected £5.4m in parking charges in 2006-07 and hospitals in England took more than £100m.
(8) So Fifa left that group out and went ahead with the draw – according to legend, plucking names from the Jules Rimet trophy itself – and, after Belgium were chosen but decided not to participate, Wales came out next.
(9) Bringing the Prince of Wales into service “will involve very considerable additional costs, additional manpower, extra aircraft and the considerable amount of support and protection needed to make it viable”, say the MPs.
(10) But he won’t call.” Allardyce is also cynical about an offer from Swansea to compensate around 300 Sunderland fans who had booked trips to Wales before the date change.
(11) The bill will create a six-month time limit for family courts in England and Wales to reach decisions on whether children should be taken into care and will require the court to take into account the impact of delays on the child.
(12) There were a record 354 deaths in prisons in England and Wales in 2016.
(13) 31 October TB met the Prince of Wales after he took Prince William hunting.
(14) The annual number of confirmed cases of Legionnaires' disease in both Nottingham, and England and Wales, reached a peak in 1980 and has since declined.
(15) A comprehensive analysis of repeat rates has been obtained from an observational study of radiological practice in diagnostic X-ray departments throughout Wales.
(16) The most recent figures show 3,046 confirmed cases in England and Wales, compared with 1,669 cases last winter.
(17) In north Wales, Llandudno town council has had to cancel its annual display at short notice after it was told it would have to pay at least £22,000 to insure the wonderful Victorian pier in case of a fire.
(18) When he was prime minister Tony Blair asked Peter Mandelson to tell the Prince of Wales to stop his "unhelpful" attempts to influence policy on GM and Mandelson accused him of being "anti-scientific and irresponsible".
(19) Others, like eight-year-old Stan – who was playing football with his mates in a corner of the beer-soaked field, has only good memories of Wales.
(20) A spokesperson for Plaid Cymru said: “On 5 May, Wales chose not to elect one single party to govern Wales with a majority.