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daphne
noun
1. Any of various evergreen shrubs that bear clusters of small flowers, eg
spurge laurel
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Etymology
: 15c: from Greek
daphne
laurel or bay tree; according to myth, the name of a nymph who was changed into a laurel tree to escape Apollo.
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