Daphne

  1. Proper noun.  (Greek mythology) A dryad pursued by Apollo, who was turned into a laurel tree by the river god Peneus.
  2. Proper noun.  (given name, female) .
  3. Noun.  (botany) Any one of least 50 species of shrub of the ''Thymelaeaceae'' family, some of which are grown as ornamentals.

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