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Daphne cneorum

Daphne cneorum

9.9
A low evergreen shrub with tight groups of pink or deep rose flowers that smell nice
  • noun
  • Specialized
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  • The Daphne cneorum in her garden produces beautiful pink flowers that fill the air with a sweet scent.

Examples

  • The Daphne cneorum in her garden blooms every spring with a delicate fragrance.

  • Many gardeners love the Daphne cneorum for its fragrance.

  • Gardeners prize Daphne cneorum for its attractive pink flowers and compact, evergreen habit.

  • Many botanical gardens feature Daphne cneorum in their alpine plant collections.

  • The Daphne cneorum blooms beautifully in spring.

  • Gardeners prize Daphne cneorum for its attractive pink flowers and compact, evergreen habit.

  • Many botanical gardens feature Daphne cneorum for its dense clusters of fragrant blooms.

Synonyms

garland flower
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9.1

A low evergreen shrub often grown in gardens for its sweet-smelling pink or deep rose flowers

is the formal botanical name used without the parenthetical common name

Surface Forms

Daphne cneorum singular
Daphne cneorums plural

Morphology

Daphne + cneorum

This is a Linnaean binomial: knowing 'Daphne' (a genus of shrubs) allows a learner to infer it is a species of that shrub, so some basic category-level meaning is recoverable. However 'cneorum' is not a transparent common-word element and does not by itself yield the detailed descriptive sense (low, evergreen, fragrant pink-flowered shrub), so the full meaning is not predictable from the parts.

Etymology

Daphne cneorum may get its name from a Greek story and a Greek word: Daphne was a girl in a myth who turned into a tree, and cneorum likely comes from a word for a small, sweet-smelling shrub. So the name is a handy memory for a 'low', evergreen plant with 'fragrant' pink flowers.