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Definition of Marguerite daisy

1. Noun. Perennial subshrub of the Canary Islands having usually pale yellow daisylike flowers; often included in genus Chrysanthemum.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Marguerite Daisy

Literary usage of Marguerite daisy

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

1. The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Gardening in All Its Branches by Esther Baldwin York (1906)
"marguerite daisy FLÏ (Mrs. Walter Scott).—The leaves of your Marguerites are attacked by the grubs of the marguerite daisy fly (Phytomyza ..."

2. Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen by Hans Christian Andersen (1907)
"The Butterfly " Sweet marguerite daisy," said he, " you are the wisest wife among all the flowers; you know how to predict events. ..."

3. Manual of Gardening: A Practical Guide to the Making of Home Grounds and the by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"... in 6-inch or 8-inch pots or in small soap boxes. There is a fine yellow-flowered variety. The marguerite daisy is much grown out-of-doors in California. ..."

4. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1905)
"... just as the marguerite daisy, another flower of Artemis, was assigned to St Margaret of Cortona. And there is some ground for putting into the same ..."

5. Pottery and Porcelain: A Guide to Collectors by Frederick Litchfield (1900)
"His celebrated marguerite daisy ornament was in all probability adopted out of compliment to his Protestant protectress, Marguerite of Navarre. ..."

6. The Electrical Engineer (1893)
"The objects to be dealt with, whether they be a sprig of natural holly or ivy, a bit of common hedge briar, a fern, geranium leaf, a marguerite daisy, ..."

7. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1890)
"$o 15 A marguerite Daisy. (In shape of the flower.) Eight pages of color and type 35 Snowdrop«. Small 410. ..."

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