different between narcissus vs polyanthus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin narcissus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (nárkissos), ultimately either from Pre-Greek or related to ????? (nárk?).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /n???s?s?s/
• Rhymes: -?s?s

Noun

narcissus (plural narcissuses or narcissi)

Wikispecies

1. Any of several bulbous flowering plants, of the genus Narcissus, having white or yellow cup- or trumpet-shaped flowers, notably the daffodil
2. A beautiful young man, like the mythological Greek Narcissus

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (nárkissos).

Noun

narcissus m (genitive narciss?); second declension

1. narcissus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

References

• narcissus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• narcissus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• narcissus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• narcissus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[2]
• narcissus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• narcissus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

English

Etymology

From Renaissance Latin polyanthus, corresponding to poly- +? Ancient Greek ????? (ánthos, “flower”).

Noun

polyanthus (plural polyanthuses or polyanthi)

1. A type of primula, apparently originally from a hybrid between the cowslip and the primrose, having many different-coloured flowers. [from 17th c.]
   • 1793, Hester Piozzi, Thraliana, 27 February:

     [T]he Hens all want to sit, the Primroses Polyanthuses &c crowd the Hedges; & a Rose Tree or two are quite full of Leaves.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek [Term?].

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /po.ly?an.t?us/, [p?ly?än?t???s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /po.li?an.tus/, [p?li??n?t?us]

Adjective

polyanthus (feminine polyantha, neuter polyanthum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (New Latin) Having many flowers

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.