daphne

See also: Daphne, Daphné, Daphnë, and daphné

English

twin-flower daphne (Daphne pontica)

Etymology

From translingual Daphne, from Ancient Greek δάφνη (dáphnē, “laurel”).

Noun

daphne (plural daphnes)

1. Any one of least 50 species of shrub in the genus Daphne of the family Thymelaeaceae, some of which are grown as ornamentals.

Derived terms

• Chinese daphne (Daphne genkwa)
• February daphne (Daphne mezereum)
• flax-leaved daphne (Daphne gnidium)
• lilac daphne (Daphne genkwa)
• rose daphne (Daphne cneorum)
• twin-flower daphne (Daphne pontica)
• winter daphne (Daphne odora)

Translations

shrub in the genus Daphne

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
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• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: бясно дърво n (bjasno dǎrvo), вълче лико n (vǎlče liko)
• Chinese: please add this translation if you can
• Czech: lýkovec m
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• Finnish: näsiä (fi)
• French: garou (fr) m
• Georgian: მაჯაღვერი (maǯaɣveri)
• German: Seidelbast (de) m
• Hungarian: boroszlán (hu)
• Indonesian: dafnah (id)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: citocacia f
• Maori: pinātoro, toroheke, autetauranga
• Polish: wawrzynek m
• Portuguese: dafne (pt) f
• Romanian: iederă albă (ro) f
• Russian: во́лчий пе́рец m (vólčij pérec), во́лчье лы́ко (ru) n (vólčʹje lýko), во́лчий я́годник (vólčij jágodnik), волчея́годник (ru) m (volčejágodnik)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ли̏ковац m

  Latin: lȉkovac (sh) m

• Slovak: lykovec m
• Slovene: volčína f, volčín m
• Swedish: tibast (sv) c
• Vietnamese: thụy hương

References

• Daphne (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Daphne on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• “*daphne”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.