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DAISY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of numerous composite plants having flower heads with well-developed ray flowers usually arranged in a single whorl
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("daisy" is a kind of...):
flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "daisy"):
Bellis perennis; common daisy; English daisy (low-growing Eurasian plant with yellow central disc flowers and pinkish-white outer ray flowers)
Holonyms ("daisy" is a member of...):
Bellis; genus Bellis (daisy)
Context examples:
Daisy, dear, I've sent an invitation to your friend, Mr. Laurence, for Thursday.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Its garden, too, glowed with flowers: hollyhocks had sprung up tall as trees, lilies had opened, tulips and roses were in bloom; the borders of the little beds were gay with pink thrift and crimson double daisies; the sweetbriars gave out, morning and evening, their scent of spice and apples; and these fragrant treasures were all useless for most of the inmates of Lowood, except to furnish now and then a handful of herbs and blossoms to put in a coffin.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
We'll drink the daisies of the field, in compliment to you; and the lilies of the valley that toil not, neither do they spin, in compliment to me—the more shame for me!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Daisy, who was fond of going about peddling kisses, lost her best customer and became bankrupt.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Of late I had often recalled this saying and this incident; for during the past week scarcely a night had gone over my couch that had not brought with it a dream of an infant, which I sometimes hushed in my arms, sometimes dandled on my knee, sometimes watched playing with daisies on a lawn, or again, dabbling its hands in running water.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Daisy, he said, with a smile—for though that's not the name your godfathers and godmothers gave you, it's the name I like best to call you by—and I wish, I wish, I wish, you could give it to me!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Daisy found it impossible to keep her eyes off her 'pitty aunty', but attached herself like a lap dog to the wonderful chatelaine full of delightful charms.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Daisy, stir the fire, and make it a brisk one! and Mr. Peggotty, unless you can induce your gentle niece to come back (for whom I vacate this seat in the corner), I shall go.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Daisy March—father a colonel in the army—one of our first families, but reverses of fortune, you know; intimate friends of the Laurences; sweet creature, I assure you; my Ned is quite wild about her.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
A regular daisy.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
