daphne
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 13
- Letters
- 6
/ˈdæfni/(UK)
Definition of daphne
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
name
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(Greek)A dryad pursued by Apollo, who was turned into a laurel tree by the river god Peneus.
“Run when you will, the story shall be chang'd; / Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase; / The dove pursues the griffin”
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name
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(Greek)A dryad pursued by Apollo, who was turned into a laurel tree by the river god Peneus.
“Run when you will, the story shall be chang'd; / Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase; / The dove pursues the griffin”
- 41 Daphne, a main belt asteroid.
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A female given name from Ancient Greek.
“My wife. Daphne. Yes, that was, is, her name. For some reason people have always found it faintly comic. I think it matches very well her damp, dark, myopic beauty.”
noun
- Any one of least 50 species of shrub in the genus Daphne of the family Thymelaeaceae, some of which are grown as ornamentals.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek δάφνη (dáphnē, “laurel, bay”).
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