narcissus
- Proper noun. (Greek mythology) A youth who spurned the love of Echo and fell in love with his own reflection in a pool: in some versions of the myth, he drowned trying to reach it, while in others he sat fixated until a god took pity and transformed him into a flower.
- Noun. Any of several bulbous flowering plants, of the genus ''Narcissus'', having white or yellow cup- or trumpet-shaped flowers, notably the daffodil.
- Noun. A beautiful young man, like the mythological Greek Narcissus.
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