Meaning of Daphne | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any one of least 50 species of shrub in the genus Daphne of the family Thymelaeaceae, some of which are grown as ornamentals.
2. A dryad pursued by Apollo, who was turned into a laurel tree by the river god Peneus.
   Greek
3. Alternative spelling of Daphne.
   alt-of, alternative
4. 41 Daphne, a main belt asteroid.
5. A female given name from Ancient Greek.

Equivalents

Examples

“Run when you will, the story shall be chang'd; / Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase; / The dove pursues the griffin”

“My wife. Daphne. Yes, that was, is, her name. For some reason people have always found it faintly comic. I think it matches very well her damp, dark, myopic beauty.”

“Nay, lady, sit. If I but wave this wand, Your nerves are all chain’d up in alabaster, And you a statue, or, as Daphnë was, Root-bound, that fled Apollo.”

Comus

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