oxeye
Americannoun
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any of several composite plants, especially of the genera Heliopsis and Buphthalum, having ray flowers surrounding a conspicuous disk.
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Informal. any of several shorebirds, as the least sandpiper.
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Architecture. oeil-de-boeuf.
noun
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any Eurasian plant of the genus Buphthalmum, having daisy-like flower heads with yellow rays and dark centres: family Asteraceae (composites)
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any of various North American plants of the related genus Heliopsis, having daisy-like flowers
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another name for daisy
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Etymology
Origin of oxeye
late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425; see origin at ox, eye
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But that was changing: He pointed to butter-and-eggs, oxeye daisies, bellflowers, tufted vetch, hemp nettle, spotted jewelweed, creeping Charlie, common tansy, orange hawkweed.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2021
Beveridge said her property is dotted with oxeye daisies simply because deer leave those plants alone and chew through everything else.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 11, 2021
Beside an assortment of spray carnation, baby’s breath, cornflower and oxeye daisy is the caption: “Classified ‘Spare Parts’ deal.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2016
By recreating the glades which once existed in dense forest cover, they provide home for up to 120 flowering species, among them the devil's-bit scabious, globeflower, great burnet, lady's-mantle, oxeye daisy, pignut and wood crane's-bill.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2012
A tuft of oxeye daisies in the shelter of a ruinous worm fence attracted him, and he reined the cob from the highway to fetch them.
From The Henchman by Luther, Mark Lee
The squirrels and oxeyes squabbled in the hazels, and the badgers went harvesting when the moon rose.
From Lives of the Fur Folk by Haviland, M. D.
But is not the sorrel itself red, and the oxeyes white?
From Madam How and Lady Why by Kingsley, Charles
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