Nar‐cis″sus (när‐sĭs″sŭs), n.; pl.Narcissuses (#). [L. narcissus, and (personified) Narcissus, Gr. νάρκισσοσ, Νάρκισσοσ, fr. νάρκη torpor, in allusion to the narcotic properties of the flower. Cf. Narcotic.]
1. (Bot.) A genus of endogenous bulbous plants with handsome flowers, having a cup-shaped crown within the six-lobed perianth, and comprising the daffodils and jonquils of several kinds.
2. (Classical Myth.) A beautiful youth fabled to have been enamored of his own image as seen in a fountain, and to have been changed into the flower called Narcissus.