Easton's Bible Dictionary Daffodil, a Roman whom Paul salutes (Romans 16:11). He is supposed to have been the private secretary of the emperor Claudius. This is, however, quite uncertain. Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language 1. (n.) A beautiful youth fabled to have been enamored of his own image, and to have been changed into the flower called Narcissus. 2. (n.) A genus of endogenous bulbous plants with handsome flowers, having a cup-shaped crown within the six-lobed perianth, and comprising the daffodils and jonquils of several kinds.
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