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What is a jonquil?

What is a jonquil? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (botany) A fragrant bulb flower (Narcissus jonquilla), a species of daffodil. [from 1660s]
  2. A shade of yellow. [from late 18th c.]
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Various common names including daffodil, daffadowndilly, narcissus, and jonquil are used to describe all or some members of the genus.
From that day jonquil took as much care of Agatha as if she had been her own child.
I don't think I am too fastidious, but that was no place for that jonquil, Jennie Aird.
From the stock, as well as from the branches, rises a jonquil flower, the pistil of which contains the husk which incloses the fruit.
I had not been five minutes on the jonquil and in another two I was with Hammersley.
Suddenly there was a flutter in the air, and jonquil stood on the edge of the saucer.

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