oxeye daisy

American  

noun

1. a composite plant, Chrysanthemum leucanthemum, having flowers with white rays and a yellow disk.

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Etymology

Origin of oxeye daisy

First recorded in 1745–55

Example Sentences

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

Hierba amargosa means ragweed, hierba amarilla means an oxeye daisy, and so on down to hierba velluda meaning bulbous buttercup.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

The farmer in this locality must have an alert eye for Canada thistles and oxeye daisy.

From Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View by Elliott, Calvin