Daphnë

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. özel isim A dryad pursued by Apollo, who was turned into a laurel tree by the river god Peneus.

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

2. özel isim 41 Daphne, a main belt asteroid.
3. özel isim A female given name from Ancient Greek.

   “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.”

4. isim Any one of least 50 species of shrub in the genus Daphne of the family Thymelaeaceae, some of which are grown as ornamentals.
5. özel isim Alternative spelling of Daphne.

   “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.”