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English daisy

American  

noun

  1. the common European daisy, Bellis perennis.


Etymology

Origin of English daisy

First recorded in 1885–90


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In one of the parks we saw the little English daisy, but that was the same "wee crimson-tipped flower" that it ever was.

From A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 by J. Harris (John Harris) Knowles

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

From Collected Poems Volume One by Alfred Noyes

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 Frances Hodgson Burnett

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 Alice Morse Earle

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

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