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Oxeye   Listen
noun
Oxeye  n.  
1.
(Bot.)
(a)
The oxeye daisy. See under Daisy.
(b)
The corn camomile (Anthemis arvensis).
(c)
A genus of composite plants (Buphthalmum) with large yellow flowers.
2.
(Zool.)
(a)
A titmouse, especially the great titmouse (Parus major) and the blue titmouse (Parus coeruleus). (Prov. Eng.)
(b)
The dunlin.
(c)
A fish; the bogue, or box.
Creeping oxeye (Bot.) a West Indian composite plant (Wedelia carnosa).
Seaside oxeye (Bot.), a West Indian composite shrub (Borrichia arborescens).





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"Oxeye" Quotes from Famous Books



... The splendid wild swan wheeled and trumpeted in the clear autumn air; the wild geese flew there in their beautiful V-shaped flight; duck in all the varieties known to modern sportsmen—canvas-back, mallard, widgeon, redhead, oxeye, dottrel—rested on the Chesapeake waters in vast flocks a mile wide and seven miles long. Governor Berkeley named also brant, shell drake, teal, and blewings. The sound of their wings was said to be "like a great storm coming over the water." For centuries these ...
— Home Life in Colonial Days • Alice Morse Earle
... them here, and let us see. Nine kinds of grasses, and a rush. Six kinds of clovers and vetches; and besides, dandelion, and rattle, and oxeye, and sorrel, and plantain, and buttercup, and a little stitchwort, and pignut, and mouse-ear ...
— Madam How and Lady Why - or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children • Charles Kingsley


Words linked to "Oxeye" :   Buphthalmum, oxeye daisy, woodland oxeye, wildflower, genus Buphthalmum, genus Heliopsis


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