Also called Paris daisy. the European daisy, Bellis perennis.
any of several daisylike flowers, especially Chrysanthemum frutescens, cultivated for its numerous white-rayed, yellow-centered flowers.
a cultivated garden plant, Chrysanthemum frutescens, whose flower heads have white or pale yellow rays around a yellow disc: family Asteraceae (composites)
any of various related plants with daisy-like flowers, esp C. leucanthemum
1865–70; < French: daisy, pearl < Latin margarīta pearl < Greek; see margarite
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Red candles, red marguerite daisies and anti-fascist stickers lay at the foot of the 12-foot-tall monument to Marx, the author of “The Communist Manifesto,” recently.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2020
I made this archetypal drawing of the shape of the marguerite, as a child would, and made it in bronze and then painted it as if it were a silk-screen print.
From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2019
One of the nine people who had turned up to say goodbye placed two pots of yellow and white marguerite daisies on the casket.
From The Guardian • Oct. 27, 2018
When a Marguerite plucks the petals of a marguerite, muttering "he loves me—he loves me not," her heart flutters in momentary anguish with every "not," till the next petal soothes it again.
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus
Gather the open marguerite daisies, and they seem large—so wide a disc, such fingers of rays; but in the grass their size is toned by so much green.
From Pageant of Summer by Jefferies, Richard
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