Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for NAR-CIS'SUS
NAR'CE-INA, or NAR'CE-INENAR-CO'SIS
NAR-CIS'SUS, n. [L.; Gr. ναρκισσος.]
In botany, a genus of plants of several species. They are bulbous-rooted, perennial in root, but with annual leaves and flower-stalks. Encyc.
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