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Definition of Daisylike
1. Adjective. Resembling a daisy.
Definition of Daisylike
1. Adjective. Resembling a daisy, especially in shape or color ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Daisylike
Literary usage of Daisylike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Garden by Louise Beebe Wilder (1916)
"It grows four to five feet tall and forms fine, erect clumps, bearing quantities
of white daisylike flowers over a period of several weeks. ..."
2. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1881)
"... which Lance called his studio, her pretty face, which no tangled hair or
graveyard garments could make anything but fresh and pert and daisylike, ..."
3. The Fortnightly Review (1883)
"Mr. Green's " Fleet Wedding," with its ruffianly parson and its daisylike bride,
is at the Royal Academy; his water-colour drawing, "Oranges, Apples, ..."
4. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"... solitary : head. daisylike, about 34 in. diam. ; rays numerous, narrow, white
above, purple on the back, especially in age ; style-tip. obtuse. ..."
5. The Well-considered Garden by Francis King, Louisa Yeomans King (1915)
"... anchusa Dropmore, habranthus, Nepeta Mussini, cerastium, erigeron (a low,
daisylike flower not often seen in our own gardens), and dianthus. ..."
6. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1921)
"In March the wet grounds in the pine barrens from North Carolina to Texas are
usually sprinkled with with small, white, daisylike flowers which rise on ..."
7. Malaria According to the New Researches by Angelo Celli (1901)
"... are arranged round it in a daisylike form. The principal characteristics of
the spring tertian parasite are (fig. 17 AK) :— \f\Aj~9*\- 1. ..."
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