narcissus(noun)

bulbous plant having erect linear leaves and showy yellow or white flowers either solitary or in clusters

Narcissus(noun)

(Greek mythology) a beautiful young man who fell in love with his own reflection

narcissus(Noun)

Any of several bulbous flowering plants, of the genus Narcissus, having white or yellow cup- or trumpet-shaped flowers, notably the daffodil

narcissus(Noun)

A beautiful young man, like the mythological Greek Narcissus

Narcissus(ProperNoun)

A youth who spurned the love of Echo and fell in love with his own reflection in a pool: in some versions of the myth, he drowned trying to reach it, while in others he sat fixated until a god took pity and transformed him into a flower.

Narcissus(noun)

a genus of endogenous bulbous plants with handsome flowers, having a cup-shaped crown within the six-lobed perianth, and comprising the daffodils and jonquils of several kinds

Narcissus(noun)

a beautiful youth fabled to have been enamored of his own image as seen in a fountain, and to have been changed into the flower called Narcissus

Narcissus

a self-satisfied youth who disdained the addresses of Echo, in consequence of which she pined away and died, and who, by way of penalty, was doomed to fall in love with his own image, which he kept beholding in the mirror of a fountain till he too pined away and died, his corpse being metamorphosed into the flower that bears his name.

Narcissus

A plant genus of the family LILIACEAE. Members contain ungiminorine and LECTINS.