English daisy

American  

noun

1. the common European daisy, Bellis perennis.

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Etymology

Origin of English daisy

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

And we saw it was a white English daisy, ringed with red.

From Collected Poems Volume One by Noyes, Alfred

An American cowslip is not an English cowslip, an American primrose is no English primrose, and the English daisy is no country friend of ours in America.

From Home Life in Colonial Days by Earle, Alice Morse

And Chaucer, speaking of our English daisy, saith "Si douce est la Marguerite."

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various

In this room, one morning, late in Lent, Leila Dick sat, looking as out of place as an English daisy in a tropical jungle.

From Contrary Mary by Bailey, Temple

She had a slim, round throat, and the English daisy face it upheld caused it to suggest to the mind the stem of a flower.

From T. Tembarom by Burnett, Frances Hodgson