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Daphne

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A dryad pursued by Apollo, who was turned into a laurel tree by the river god Peneus. Greek

    "Run when you will, the story shall be chang'd; / Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase; / The dove pursues the griffin"

  2. 2
    41 Daphne, a main belt asteroid.
  3. 3
    A female given name from Ancient Greek.

    "My wife. Daphne. Yes, that was, is, her name. For some reason people have always found it faintly comic. I think it matches very well her damp, dark, myopic beauty."

Noun
  1. 1
    Any one of least 50 species of shrub in the genus Daphne of the family Thymelaeaceae, some of which are grown as ornamentals.
  2. 2
    (Greek mythology) a nymph who was transformed into a laurel tree to escape the amorous Apollo wordnet
  3. 3
    any of several ornamental shrubs with shiny mostly evergreen leaves and clusters of small bell-shaped flowers wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek δάφνη (dáphnē, “laurel, bay”).

Etymology 2

From translingual Daphne, from Ancient Greek δάφνη (dáphnē, “laurel”).

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