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Fortunately, one opportunity remains to save us all, a gleaming beacon of fluorescent daffodil light welcoming our tired and poor, but mostly our hungry, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
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By Gemma and Andrew Ingalls Stroll through a garden of roses--plus amaryllises, lilies of the valley, peonies, poppies, daffodils and bleeding hearts.
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The Garden Club planted 3,000 daffodil bulbs along Pearl Road and in many of our city parks.
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COST: Free SENIOR DALLAS ARBORETUM TRIP Monday, June 19 - 10am to 4pm Dallas Blooms features tulips, daffodils, Dutch Iris and hyacinths, pansies, violas and thousands of other springtime annuals and perennials.
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COST: Free SENIOR DALLAS ARBORETUM TRIP Monday, June 19 - 10am to 4pm Dallas Blooms features tulips, daffodils, Dutch Iris and hyacinths, pansies, violas and thousands of other springtime annuals and perennials.
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Over the years Mr. Due planted on his estate thousands of daffodils to bloom each April.
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Thousands of daffodils cover a slope in their own version of Daffodil Hill.
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The trees are in full bloom for only a week — the entire neighborhood crowned in pinks, reds, purples, yellows, whites — with tulips and daffodils erupting in every yard.
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Origin and Etymology of daffodil
perhaps from Dutch de affodil the asphodel
DAFFODIL Defined for English Language Learners
daffodil
playDefinition of daffodil for English Language Learners
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: a yellow flower that blooms in the spring and that has a center that is shaped like a long tube
DAFFODIL Defined for Kids
daffodil
playDefinition of daffodil for Students
: a plant that grows from a bulb and has long slender leaves and usually yellow or white flowers with petals whose inner parts are arranged to form a trumpet-shaped tube
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