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Meanings of jonquil in английском

каталонский
almesquí
Wikidata

Widely cultivated ornamental plant native to southern Europe but naturalized elsewhere having fragrant yellow or white clustered flowers.

        almesquí
        испанский
        junquillo oloroso
        Wikidata

        Beautiful flower.

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              junquillo oloroso
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              Usage of jonquil in английском
              1
              Narcissus 'Pipit' must have some jonquil blood, for it is beautifully scented.
              The Guardian
              2
              I grow a good hybrid jonquil called 'Silver Chimes'.
              The Guardian
              3
              The jonquil has a cluster of small blossoms of from three to six single flowers.
              The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.
              4
              Above, Jupiter hung like a full-blown jonquil, so bright as almost to throw a shade.
              Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman
              5
              In Paris streets, on a March day, he comes across a flower in bloom, a jonquil:
              The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
              6
              She turned her head away and began to play with the petals of a near-by jonquil.
              The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American...
              7
              A plant of humbler growth is the jonquil.
              Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888
              8
              On the stands and tables were bowls full of clear-coloured spring flowers-earlyprimrose, jonquil, and narcissus.
              The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
              9
              A jonquil in bloom was there.
              The Psychology of Beauty
              10
              This is a large family, One gets confused sometimes with the names daffodil, jonquil and paper white narcissus.
              The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.
              11
              They give off a jonquil-yellow light.
              The Sirens of Titan
              12
              She had given him a jonquil.
              The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million
              13
              They sat on the oasis and ate, with the patient purple camels grouped in the shade of the jonquil palm.
              The Tin Soldier
              14
              That golden, pining jonquil, which you hold, buried in those wormwood leaves, says plainly to you-Bitter love in absence.
              Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I
              15
              The second damsel now flung over to me Circe flowers; then, a faded jonquil, buried in a tuft of wormwood leaves.
              Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I
              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.
              Deerbrook
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