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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Dāph'ne, n.

noun

(dăf'ne), n. [Lat. Daphne, from daphne, Gr. δάφνη, the laurel-tree.]

  1. (Myth.) A nymph of Diana, fabled to have been changed to a laurel.
  2. (Bot.) The laurel, a genus of diminutive shrubs, mostly evergreen, of great beauty and fragrance in the flower, and with a peculiar velvet texture in the leaf. London.