daisy
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any of various composite plants the flowers of which have a yellow disk and white rays, as the English daisy and the oxeye daisy.
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Also called daisy ham. a small section of pork shoulder, usually smoked, boned, and weighing from two to four pounds.
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Slang. someone or something of first-rate quality.
That new car is a daisy.
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a cheddar cheese of cylindrical shape, weighing about 20 pounds.
idioms
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a small low-growing European plant, Bellis perennis, having a rosette of leaves and flower heads of yellow central disc flowers and pinkish-white outer ray flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
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Also called: oxeye daisy. marguerite. moon daisy. a Eurasian composite plant, Leucanthemum vulgare having flower heads with a yellow centre and white outer rays
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any of various other composite plants having conspicuous ray flowers, such as the Michaelmas daisy and Shasta daisy
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slang an excellent person or thing
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dead and buried
Other Word Forms
- daisied adjective
Etymology
Origin of daisy
before 1000; Middle English dayesye, Old English dægesēge the day's eye
Example Sentences
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All three sections brim with short essays on various plant species such as rose, clover, iris, violet, daisy and lily of the valley, which Dior fashioned into silhouettes and blossoming decorative surfaces.
What all these companies have in common is that they have built internal knowledge factories that daisy chain together small, simple, fast AIs.
The white was ox-eye daisies, bladder campion and wild carrot, with spires of bright blue from viper's bugloss.
From BBC
The daisies beneath him are crying — unhappy to be driven on.
From Los Angeles Times
Their middle-school classmates include a ghost, a cloud, a banana, an ice cream cone, a daisy, a balloon, a cactus, a T. Rex and a flying eyeball.
From Los Angeles Times
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