daffodil

英 ['dæfədɪl] 美['dæfədɪl]

复数: daffodils;

1. 谐音“大佛的哦”-----“大佛”就是“仙”，所以这是与“仙”有关的、含有“仙”字的花儿----所以就是“仙花”----进一步自然地就想起了“水仙花”。
2. 谐音“大花儿的哦”。

daffodil 黄水仙

来自拉丁语asphodelus, 黄水仙。字母d误以为是冠词de而加在首字母前。

daffodil: daffodil: [16] Originally, this word was affodil, and referred to a plant of the lily family, the asphodel; it came from medieval Latin affodillus, and the reason for the change from asph- (or asf-, as it often was in medieval texts) to aff- is probably that the s in medieval manuscripts looked very like an f. The first evidence of its use to refer to a ‘daffodil’, rather than an ‘asphodel’, comes in the middle of the 16th century. It is not entirely clear where the initial d came from, but the likeliest explanation is that daffodil represents Dutch de affodil ‘the daffodil’ (the Dutch were then as now leading exponents of bulb cultivation).
daffodil (n.): 1540s, variant of Middle English affodill "asphodel" (c. 1400), from Medieval Latin affodillus, from Latin asphodelus, from Greek asphodelos, which is of unknown origin. The initial d- is perhaps from merging of the article in Dutch de affodil, the Netherlands being a source for bulbs. First reference to the flower we know by this name (Narcissus pseudo-Narcissus) is from 1590s.

2. Perennial border such as daffodil, daisy, lily, phlox, iris, etc.: 栽种多年生植物(如水仙花、雏菊、百合、福禄考、蝴蝶花等)的条形绿化带.

4. I was right. On top of a daffodil, sat a bee.: 确实是虫子,我猜对了. 在一朵水仙花上, 落着一只蜜蜂.