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US
/ˈdæfni/
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[ UK /dˈæfni/ ]
[ UK /dˈæfni/ ]
NOUN
- (Greek mythology) a nymph who was transformed into a laurel tree to escape the amorous Apollo
How To Use Daphne In A Sentence
- San Francisco poets Tarin Towers and Daphne Gottlieb, Eitan Kadosh from L.A. and Phoenix's Eirein Bradley barnstormed with O'Hara through 35 U.S. cities over the summer.
- Barb has never met anyone named Daphne, but she knows she's heard the name somewhere before. White Bread
- A hardy Daphne flowers in March, simultaneously with a Coreopsis and two kinds of Litsae with small yellow bells.
- We need to enforce the territorial integrity of the law and require everyone who wants to come here to go through the legally correct process. daphne Obama reiterates commitment to immigration reform
- Daphne was so guileless that Claire had no option but to believe her.
- Marino treats the conflation of the metamorphosed Daphne with the poet's instrument and song at length, perhaps in order to strengthen the connection with the eclogue that directly follows it in his collection, entitled ‘Siringa.’
- And what would you think of a wealth of gentians, large and small; great yellow arnicas; beautiful Martagon lilies; and St. - Bruno lilies; of every variety of daphne; of androsace, with its rose-coloured clusters; of the flame-coloured orchis; of saxifrage; of great, velvety campanulas; of pretty violet asters, wrapped in little, cravat-like tufting, to protect them from the cold? Samuel Brohl and Company
- Now it was another plant whose clusters of small bell-shaped flowers resembled the daphne in Eleanor's garden. THE GOLDEN LION
- So that when in February there came a blue, bright morning, the morning that suggests yellow crocuses and the smell of a mezereon tree and the smell of damp, warm earth, Daphne hastily got a taxi and drove out to the hospital. The Ladybird
- To Jules -- our most fragrant daphne shrubs are blooming as we speak -- a winter bloomer with the most gorgeous perfume ever -- it lifts my heart in winter while waiting for the Spring lift -- and I hope it will lift your heart when u may be grieving. Paradis - French Word-A-Day