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; see origin at 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

Grasshoppers Grasshoppers go in many a thumming spring And now to stalks of tasseled sow-grass cling, That shakes and swees awhile, but still keeps straight; While arching oxeye doubles with his weight.

From Poems Chiefly from Manuscript by Clare, John