(n.) A genus of diminutive Shrubs, mostly evergreen, and with fragrant blossoms.
(n.) A nymph of Diana, fabled to have been changed into a laurel tree.
Example Sentences:
(1) BBC1 will also screen a three-part adaptation of PD James' Death Comes to Pemberley, the Jane Austen homage in the 200th anniversary year of Pride and Prejudice, as well as a three-part adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn and Remember Me, a ghost story by Gwyneth Hughes (Five Days, The Girl).
(2) The number of complaints about BBC1's Daphne du Maurier adaptation totalled 1,384 on Thursday morning, up from 798 the day before.
(3) For what it’s worth, I thought of Sadness and Joy as like Velma and Daphne from Scooby Doo , of equal importance in the long run.
(4) But only together | Daphne Wysham Read more “We believe we can play an important role in developing the Arctic’s energy resources.
(5) He is survived by his second wife, Marilyn (nee Gasson), whom he married in 1979; by their children, Thomas, Elizabeth, Gabriel and Joshua; and by his daughter, Imogen, from his first marriage, to Daphne Brewer, which ended in divorce.
(6) He left Daphne for Toronto, before then going to Egypt and finally Somalia.
(7) A new (-)-4-oxo-2,6-bis-(3',4'-methylenedioxy phenyl)-3, 7-dioxabicyclo[3, 3, 0] octane lignan, genkdaphin was isolated from the leaves of Daphne genkwa Sieb.
(8) He grew up in Daphne, a community of 20,000 outside Mobile, the son of a Christian mother and a Syrian-born Muslim father.
(9) He returned to the subject in 1993 with The Candlemass Road, a short novel which at times seems like one of Daphne Du Maurier's historical romances, except that the love interest stops dead, perhaps realistically so.
(10) Hb Daphne showed low cooperativity with high oxygen affinity.
(11) A Derbyshire farmer, Daphne Tilley, told the Guardian that her family business was left with £9,000 of unpaid bills after a restaurant she supplied with meat run by the celebrity chef Tom Aikens went bust.
(12) Deputy senior district judge Daphne Wickham adjourned the case because she did not have "sufficient" powers to pass sentence.
(13) The second instalment of the TV adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's classic novel, starring Downton Abbey actor Jessica Brown Findlay, was watched by 4.5 million viewers, a 19.4% share of the audience, between 9pm and 10pm on Tuesday.
(14) Two mutant Hbs (Hb Nymphéas [Cys-93 beta----Ser] and Hb Daphne [Cys-93 beta----Ser, His-143 beta----Arg]) were constructed by site-directed mutagenesis using synthetic oligonucleotides.
(15) The audience for the second episode of the adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel fell by 1.6 million following hundreds of viewer complaints over mumbling in the first episode.
(16) The Sisterhood began eleven years ago under the leadership of Ms. Daphne Busby.
(17) Daphne Cotton Twickenham, Middlesex • You are right to exonerate Twitter from blame for the summer riots.
(18) "He was only pretending to be a friend," Daphne tells herself, "something no interviewer, probably, had ever been."
(19) In an industry full of pomp he could cut through it with tailor's scissors, and he was, as his friend Daphne Guinness put it, "generous without noise".
(20) Daphne Selfe: 'I have my physical limitations – I can't wear high heels now, for instance.
Dryad
Definition:
(n.) A wood nymph; a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree.