tazettan.
/taˈzɛtə/ A fragrant white or yellow polyanthus narcissus, Narcissus tazetta, native to the Mediterranean, or any of the numerous varieties developed from it.
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narcissusOE
daffodil1548
laus tibi1548
affodill1551
primrose peerless1578
narciss1586
jonquil1629
Spanish trumpet1664
hoop-petticoat1731
poet's narcissus?1786
poet's daffodil1798
Queen Anne's double jonquil1806
polyanthus narcissus1841
tazetta1847
sweet Nancy1848
polyanth narcissus1856
pheasant's eye1872
peerless primrose1884
Tenby daffodil1884
Queen Anne's daffodil1889
poetaz1906
1847 Jrnl. Hort. Soc. 2 26 Sweet's Hermione Cypri are the produce of poeticus and a white-limbed Hermione, and N[arcissus] bifrons and compressus of Tazetta and jonquil.
1924 L. H. Bailey Man. Cultivated Plants 187 They [sc. the Poetaz narcissi] are like large-flowered Tazetta.
1956 C. Mackenzie Thin Ice iii. 36 The rising sun lighted a green plain covered with tazetta narcissus.
1977 Chicago Tribune 2 Oct. xi. 13/2 Midseason... Short-cupped daffodils; poeticus narcissus; jonquils; tazetta daffodils.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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