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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



... mount you; I think Daisy will be quite up to your weight, Sir Robert certainly would, but Daisy is ...
— Dr. Jolliffe's Boys • Lewis Hough

... with undying gratitude to all connected with the Institution, that it is to them I am indebted for the might and the mastery; for while many a daisy was crushed in my path, many a rose bloomed upon a thorny stem, and these kind ones led me at last to the sun-crowned mountain-tops and clear ...
— The World As I Have Found It - Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl • Mary L. Day Arms

... James. "I get up from my bed as fresh as a daisy at six sharp. And I've known the nights when my bed ne'er ...
— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett

... Muriel, seated in the opposite armchair, was absorbed in her new story, and beyond occasionally asking Patty to poke the fire or put on more coals, took no notice of her cousin, and did not see that anything was wrong. Patty tried to fix her attention on "The Daisy Chain", which she had just begun to read, but the description of the large family made her think of her own, and she felt so wretchedly homesick and miserable that big drops blurred her eyes and fell down on to the pages of her book. She was wiping them up carefully with ...
— The Nicest Girl in the School - A Story of School Life • Angela Brazil

... "Think of that now! Lauk-a-daisy! I've heard tell by my nevvy Davy, as is turnspit at Oak'ood, as how when there's prayers and expounding by Master Horncastle, as is a godly man, saving his Reverence's presence, he have seen him, have Davy—Master Perry, as they calls him, a-twisted round with his heels on the chair, and his ...
— A Reputed Changeling • Charlotte M. Yonge


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