1.
[syn: heliopsis, oxeye]
2. Eurasian perennial herbs having daisylike flowers with yellow rays and dark centers;
3. an oval or round dormer window;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Oxeye \Ox"eye`\, n. [Ox + eye.]
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.
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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.
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Creeping oxeye (Bot.) a West Indian composite plant
(Wedelia carnosa).
Seaside oxeye (Bot.), a West Indian composite shrub
(Borrichia arborescens).
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Plover \Plov"er\, n. [OF. plovier, F. pluvier, prop., the rain
bird, fr. LL. (assumed) pluviarius, fr. L. pluvia rain, from
pluere to rain; akin to E. float, G. fliessen to flow. See
Float.]
1. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds
belonging to the family Charadrid[ae], and especially
those belonging to the subfamily Charadrins[ae]. They
are prized as game birds.
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2. (Zool.) Any grallatorial bird allied to, or resembling,
the true plovers, as the crab plover (Dromas ardeola);
the American upland, plover (Bartramia longicauda); and
other species of sandpipers.
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Note: Among the more important species are the blackbellied
plover or blackbreasted plover (Charadrius
squatarola) of America and Europe; -- called also
gray plover, bull-head plover, Swiss plover, sea
plover, and oxeye; the golden plover (see under
Golden); the ring plover or ringed plover
(Aegialitis hiaticula). See Ringneck. The piping
plover (Aegialitis meloda); Wilson's plover
(Aegialitis Wilsonia); the mountain plover
(Aegialitis montana); and the semipalmated plover
(Aegialitis semipalmata), are all small American
species.
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Bastard plover (Zool.), the lapwing.
Long-legged plover, or yellow-legged plover. See
Tattler.
Plover's page, the dunlin. [Prov. Eng.]
Rock plover, or Stone plover, the black-bellied plover.
[Prov. Eng.]
Whistling plover.
(a) The golden plover.
(b) The black-bellied plover.
[1913 Webster] Plow
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
oxeye
n 1: any North American shrubby perennial herb of the genus
Heliopsis having large yellow daisylike flowers [syn:
heliopsis, oxeye]
2: Eurasian perennial herbs having daisylike flowers with yellow
rays and dark centers
3: an oval or round dormer window