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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. low-growing Eurasian plant with yellow central disc flowers and pinkish-white outer ray flowers;
[syn: common daisy, English daisy, Bellis perennis]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Marguerite \Mar"gue*rite\, n. [F., a pearl, a daisy. See Margarite.] (Bot.) The daisy (Bellis perennis). The name is often applied also to the ox-eye daisy and to the China aster. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Daisy \Dai"sy\ (d[=a]"z[y^]), n.; pl. Daisies (d[=a]"z[i^]z). [OE. dayesye, AS. d[ae]ges-e['a]ge day's eye, daisy. See Day, and Eye.] (Bot.) (a) A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family Composit[ae]. 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. [1913 Webster] Note: The word daisy is also used for composite plants of other genera, as Erigeron, or fleabane. [1913 Webster] Michaelmas daisy (Bot.), any plant of the genus Aster, of which there are many species. Oxeye daisy (Bot.), the whiteweed. See Daisy (b) . [1913 Webster] daisybush
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Bellis perennis n 1: low-growing Eurasian plant with yellow central disc flowers and pinkish-white outer ray flowers [syn: common daisy, English daisy, Bellis perennis]