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Meanings of jonquil in English
Catalan
almesquí 
Widely cultivated ornamental plant native to southern Europe but naturalized elsewhere having fragrant yellow or white clustered flowers.
Spanish
junquillo oloroso 
Usage of jonquil in English
1
Narcissus 'Pipit' must have some jonquil blood, for it is beautifully scented.
2
I grow a good hybrid jonquil called 'Silver Chimes'.
3
The jonquil has a cluster of small blossoms of from three to six single flowers.
4
Above, Jupiter hung like a full-blown jonquil, so bright as almost to throw a shade.
5
In Paris streets, on a March day, he comes across a flower in bloom, a jonquil:
6
She turned her head away and began to play with the petals of a near-by jonquil.
7
A plant of humbler growth is the jonquil.
8
On the stands and tables were bowls full of clear-coloured spring flowers-earlyprimrose, jonquil, and narcissus.
9
A jonquil in bloom was there.
10
This is a large family, One gets confused sometimes with the names daffodil, jonquil and paper white narcissus.
11
They give off a jonquil-yellow light.
12
She had given him a jonquil.
13
They sat on the oasis and ate, with the patient purple camels grouped in the shade of the jonquil palm.
14
That golden, pining jonquil, which you hold, buried in those wormwood leaves, says plainly to you-Bitter love in absence.
15
The second damsel now flung over to me Circe flowers; then, a faded jonquil, buried in a tuft of wormwood leaves.
16
Philip will prepare Mrs Enderby to expect you up-stairs; and, meanwhile, let me show you what a splendid jonquil we have in blow here.
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