oxeye

American  

[oks-ahy] / ˈɒksˌaɪ /

noun

plural

oxeyes

1. any of several composite plants, especially of the genera Heliopsis and Buphthalum, having ray flowers surrounding a conspicuous disk.

2. Informal. any of several shorebirds, as the least sandpiper.

3. Architecture. oeil-de-boeuf.

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oxeye British  

/ ˈɒksˌaɪ /

noun

1. any Eurasian plant of the genus Buphthalmum, having daisy-like flower heads with yellow rays and dark centres: family Asteraceae (composites)

2. any of various North American plants of the related genus Heliopsis, having daisy-like flowers

3. another name for daisy

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Etymology

Origin of oxeye

late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425; ox, eye

Example Sentences

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

I see in the fields and meadows the bird's foot trefoil, the oxeye daisy, the lady smocks, sweet hemlock, butterbur, the stitchwort, and the orchis, the "long purpled" of Shakespeare.

From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by Macfarlane, J.