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Origin of mountain daisy

First recorded in 1855–60

Words nearby mountain daisy

mountain cat, mountain chain, mountain climbing, mountain cranberry, mountain currant, mountain daisy, mountain devil, mountain dew, mountain ebony, mountaineer, mountaineering

How to use mountain daisy in a sentence

So it comes to pass that Robert Burns mourns when his plow turns under a mountain daisy or destroys the home of a field mouse.
Lest We Forget|John Gilbert Thompson
I wonder what he would have written if he had turned up a plantain weed with his plough instead of a mountain daisy.
The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House|Hildegard G. Frey
Who that has once read, can ever forget his harmonious and pathetic address to a mountain daisy on turning it up with the plough?
Flowers and Flower-Gardens|David Lester Richardson
Few men are his match for staying up all night and looking as fresh as a mountain daisy after the vigil.
Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North|Fullerton Waldo

Know that blood has been as familiar to her as the dew to the mountain daisy.
Chronicles of the Canongate|Sir Walter Scott