daisy
(noun) any of numerous composite plants having flower heads with well-developed ray flowers usually arranged in a single whorl
Source: WordNet® 3.1
daisy (plural daisies)
A wild flowering plant Bellis perennis of the Asteraceae family, with a yellow head and white petals
Many other flowering plants of various species.
(Cockney rhyming slang) A boot or other footwear.
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From the flower daisy, one of the flower names dating from the 19th century. Also a nickname for Margaret, since Marguerite and Margarita are identical with the French and Spanish word for "daisy".
Daisy
A female given name from English.
A common name for a cow.
Named after Juliette "Daisy" Gordon Low.
Daisy (plural Daisies)
A Girl Scout at the initial introductory level.
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DAISY
Acronym of Digital Accessible Information System: an XML-based open standard for people whose disability makes it difficult to read print.
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Source: Wiktionary
Dai"sy, n.; pl. Daisies. Etym: [OE. dayesye, AS. dæges day's eye, daisy. See Day, and Eye.] (Bot.) (a) A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family Compositæ. The common English and classical daisy is B. prennis, 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).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
