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narcissus|nɑːˈsɪsəs|
[In sense 1, a. L. narcissus (Virgil, etc.), ad. Gr. νάρκισσος, acc. to Pliny and Plutarch f. νάρκη numbness, in reference to the heavy or narcotic effects produced by it; in sense 2: see narcissism.]
1. Bot. Pl. narcissi (and narcissuses). A genus of the family Amaryllidaceæ, containing many species; a plant of this genus; now esp. Narcissus poeticus, a bulbous plant, flowering in spring and bearing a heavily scented single white flower with an undivided corona edged with crimson and yellow.
1548Turner Names Herbes (E.D.S.) 55 Narcissus is of diuerse sortes. 1562― Herbal ii. 62 Narcissus hath a narrow lefe, many together and fat. 1578Lyte Dodoens 209 There are two very faire and beautifull kindes of Narcissus. 1596Nashe Saffron Walden 73 Like the doure Narcissus, hauing flowres onely at the roote. 1613Davors Secrets of Angling i. xxxvii, Red Hyacinth, and yealow Daffadill, Purple Narcissus, like the morning rayes. 1638Milton Lycidas 148 Wks. (ed. Todd) V. 58 note, Next, adde Narcissus that still weeps in vaine. c1709Prior 2nd Hymn Callimachus 99 The yellow crocus there, and fair narcissus. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XII. 635/1 The..poetic daffodil, or common white narcissus, is well known. 1820Shelley Sensit. Pl. i. 18 Narcissi, the fairest among them all. 1829Landor Imag. Conv., Epicurus, etc. Wks. 1853 I. 503/1 Laden with hyacinths and narcissuses, anemones and jonquils. 1873‘Ouida’ Pascarel I. 22 At every step they trampled a bright narcissus under foot.
Comb.1885Cassell's Encycl. Dict., Narcissus-flowered Anemone, Anemone narcissiflora.
2. (With capital initial.) The name of a youth in classical mythology who died of self-love after seeing his reflection in water and was turned into the flower, used chiefly attrib. and Comb. allusively for: one who admires himself exclusively, one who resembles Narcissus in handsomeness.
1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. ii. v. 96 Go get thee hence, Had'st thou Narcissus in thy face to me, Thou would'st appeere most vgly. 1767W. Kenrick tr. Misc. Wks. J.J. Rousseau II. 121 (title) Narcissus, or the self-admirer. A comedy. 1860A. J. Munby Diary 10 Feb. in D. Hudson Munby (1972) 49 His face..seemed to me weak and self-conscious; a Narcissus face. 1891O. Wilde Pict. Dorian Gray i. 4 This young Adonis, who looks as if he was made of ivory and rose-leaves. Why, my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus. 1928R. Campbell Wayzgoose ii. 44 Here was a man—I thought it was a mess, A bottle-nosed Narcissus of the Press. 1929D. H. Lawrence Pornograhy & Obscenity 26 The most emancipated bohemians..are still utterly..enclosed within the narcissus–masturbation circle. 1930― A Propos Lady Chatterley 23 Poor, self-conscious, uneasy, narcissus-monk as he was. 1935A. Huxley Let. 20 Sept (1969) 397 Why is it that when one enters that [sc. theatrical] world, one always finds oneself with crooks, imbeciles, narcissus complexes? a1963C. S. Lewis Poems (1964) 89 So should I quickly die Narcissus⁓like of want. 1964M. McLuhan Understanding Media (1967) v. 66 The frontiers between forms that snap us out of the Narcissus-narcosis.
3. narcissus fly, a hover-fly, Lampetia (= Merodon) equestris, whose larva infests the bulbs of narcissus and other plants, causing them to rot.
1903F. V. Theobald First Rep. Econ. Entomol. 107 A correspondent..sent the larvæ of the Narcissus Fly, from Chertsey, with the following note: ‘They play havoc with the narcissus bulbs and are evidently the maggot of some fly.’ 1926Jrnl. Econ. Entomol. XIX. 249 The observations were made on the larvae of the narcissus fly. 1951Colyer & Hammond Flies Brit. Isles xii. 166 Our last example from the group is Merodon equestris F., the ‘Large Bulb Fly’ or ‘Narcissus Fly’, which is a serious pest to the horticulturalist. 1966Punch 28 Sept. 485/3 There are in Britain some two hundred and twenty known varieties of hover fly, of which only the Narcissus flies are destructive (to narcissi, naturally). |