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tazetta|tæˈzɛtə|
Also Tazetta.
[mod.L., specific epithet (Linnæus Species Plantarum (1753) I. 290), ad. It. tazzetta little cup, f. tazza (see tass2): see -et.]
A fragrant white or yellow polyanthus narcissus, Narcissus tazetta, native to the Mediterranean, or any of the numerous varieties developed from it.
1847Jrnl. Hort. Soc. II. 26 Sweet's Hermione Cypri are the produce of poeticus and a white-limbed Hermione, and N[arcissus] bifrons and compressus of Tazetta and jonquil. 1924L. H. Bailey Man. Cultivated Plants 187 They [sc. the Poetaz narcissi] are like large-flowered Tazetta. 1956C. Mackenzie Thin Ice iii. 36 The rising sun lighted a green plain covered with tazetta narcissus. 1977Chicago Tribune 2 Oct. xi. 13/2 Midseason... Short-cupped daffodils; poeticus narcissus; jonquils; tazetta daffodils. |