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Definition of English daisy
1. Noun. Low-growing Eurasian plant with yellow central disc flowers and pinkish-white outer ray flowers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of English Daisy
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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