English daisy

American  

noun

1. the common European daisy, Bellis perennis.

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Etymology

Origin of English daisy

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

And Chaucer, speaking of our English daisy, saith "Si douce est la Marguerite."

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various

And we saw it was a white English daisy, ringed with red.

From Collected Poems Volume One by Noyes, Alfred

In one of the parks we saw the little English daisy, but that was the same "wee crimson-tipped flower" that it ever was.

From A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 by Knowles, J. Harris (John Harris)

In this room, one morning, late in Lent, Leila Dick sat, looking as out of place as an English daisy in a tropical jungle.

From Contrary Mary by Bailey, Temple

Like the English daisy, it grows everywhere, and the sight of its bright starry blossoms delights every eye.

From In the Forest Or, pictures of life and scenery in the woods of Canada by Traill, Catharine Parr Strickland