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Daisy   /dˈeɪzi/   Listen
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Daisy  n.  (pl. daisies)  (Bot.)
(a)
A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family Compositae. The common English and classical daisy is Bellis perennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays.
(b)
The whiteweed (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), the plant commonly called daisy in North America; called also oxeye daisy. See Whiteweed. Note: The word daisy is also used for composite plants of other genera, as Erigeron, or fleabane.
Michaelmas daisy (Bot.), any plant of the genus Aster, of which there are many species.
Oxeye daisy (Bot.), the whiteweed. See Daisy (b).






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"Daisy" Quotes from Famous Books



... Cavin, Daisy Gravers, and Esther Taylor—three more freshmen—had joined them. Evelyn Hopkins, Ruth Henry's room-mate, who had missed making both the sorority and the Scout troop the previous year, sauntered up, just ...
— The Girl Scouts' Good Turn • Edith Lavell

... of the three poems 'To the Daisy', composed in 1802, and in the 'Afterthought, to the Duddon', the alterations introduced into the latest editions were all improvements upon the ...
— The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Volume 1 of 8 • Edited by William Knight

... scarcely any females at all, for we have left the thriving settlements of Australia far behind us, and are now wandering over the Daisy Hill gold-diggings. The particular section of that busy spot to which our attention is directed at this moment, ...
— The Lifeboat • R.M. Ballantyne

... the daisies. They did not seem to me so lovely as the daisies I used to see when I was a child. I thought with myself, "This is the cloud that gathers with life, the dimness that passion and suffering cast over the eyes of the mind." That moment my gaze fell upon a single, solitary, red-tipped daisy. My reasoning vanished, and my melancholy with it, slain by the red tips of the lonely beauty. This was the kind of daisy I had loved as a child; and with the sight of it, a whole field of them rushed back into my mind; ...
— The Portent & Other Stories • George MacDonald

... have Daisy go to that Sunday-school any more, down there in the woods. Just tell her she is not to do it, will you? She is getting her head full of the most absurd nonsense. Daisy is just the child to be ruined ...
— Melbourne House, Volume 1 • Susan Warner


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