Definition of English daisy

1. Noun. Low-growing Eurasian plant with yellow central disc flowers and pinkish-white outer ray flowers.

Exact synonyms: Bellis Perennis, Common Daisy
Generic synonyms: Daisy

Lexicographical Neighbors of English Daisy

English Channel
English Civil War
English English
English Midlands
English Revolution
English bean
English billiards
English bond
English bonds
English breakfast tea
English bulldog
English cavalry saddle
English cocker spaniel
English covenants
English daisy (current term)
English department
English disease
English elm
English foxhound
English hawthorn
English horn
English horns
English iris
English ivy
English lady crab
English language
English lavender
English muffin
English muffins

Literary usage of English daisy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Popular Science Monthly (1878)
"Dear little English daisy, growing at home on every common and pasture and ... And so, too, our little English daisy ¡a to all of us a rallying-point for ..."

2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"The English daisy is essentially a pink or pinkish 11. in its general effect, ... Твик OB English daisy. Hardy herbaceous perennial, 3-6 in. high : Ivs. ..."

3. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1901)
"The small double English daisy, that grows only by cultivation in our lawns and gardens, was the "wee, modest, crimson- tipped flower" of the Scottish poet, ..."

4. Our Garden Flowers: A Popular Study of Their Native Lands, Their Life by Harriet Louise Keeler (1910)
"The English daisy grows but half-heartedly in this country, yet is persistently offered by the gardeners in the spring with the pansies. ..."

5. Evolution, Heredity and Eugenics by John Merle Coulter (1916)
"This notable hybrid is the so-called Shasta daisy, in which there has been combined an American daisy, an English daisy, and a Japanese daisy, ..."

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