DAISY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does daisy mean? 

• DAISY (noun)
  The noun DAISY has 1 sense:

1. any of numerous composite plants having flower heads with well-developed ray flowers usually arranged in a single whorl

  Familiarity information: DAISY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAISY (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:

Nouns denoting plants

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, if anything should ever separate us, you must think of me at my best, old boy.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Laurie obediently threw himself down on the turf, and began to amuse himself by sticking daisies into the ribbons of Amy's hat, that lay there.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He had already withdrawn his eye from the Peri, and was looking at a humble tuft of daisies which grew by the wicket.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"I was loaded right to the neck. Oh, she was a daisy. Billy brought me home."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was much harder to find their way back through the big fields of buttercups and yellow daisies than it was being carried.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Daisy, my advice is that you take kindly to Doctors' Commons.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

With this idea in her head, she hailed an approaching omnibus with such a hasty gesture that the daisies flew out of the pot and were badly damaged.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He lifted his gaze, too, from the daisies, and turned it on her.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They thanked him and bade him good-bye, and turned toward the West, walking over fields of soft grass dotted here and there with daisies and buttercups.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The daisy of the field, at sunrise, is not fresher than you are.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)