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Definition of Oxeye

1. Noun. Any North American shrubby perennial herb of the genus Heliopsis having large yellow daisylike flowers.

2. Noun. Eurasian perennial herbs having daisylike flowers with yellow rays and dark centers.

3. Noun. An oval or round dormer window.

Definition of Oxeye

1. n. The oxeye daisy. See under Daisy.

Definition of Oxeye

1. Noun. Several daisy-like flowers in various genera, especially the oxeye daisy. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Oxeye

1. a flowering plant [n -S]

Medical Definition of Oxeye

1. 1. The oxeye daisy. See Daisy. The corn camomile (Anthemis arvensis). A genus of composite plants (Buphthalmum) with large yellow flowers. 2. A titmouse, especially the great titmouse (Parus major) and the blue titmouse (P. Coeruleus). The dunlin. A fish; the bogue, or box. Creeping oxeye, a West Indian composite shrub (Borrichia arborescens). Origin: Ox + eye. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oxeye

oxenium oxeniums oxepane oxepanes oxepin oxepine oxepines oxepins oxer oxers

oxes oxetane oxetanes oxetose oxetoses oxeye (current term) oxeye daisies oxeye daisy oxeyed oxeyes

oxfendazole oxflies oxfly oxford oxford-gray oxford-grey oxford gray oxford grey oxfords oxgang

Literary usage of Oxeye

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

1. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1864)
"The oxeye belongs to that natural section represented in the sunflower; it has rather large, many-flowered heads, the ray floret* 10 or more, pistillate in ..."

2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1875)
"The sea oxeye (Borrichia frutescens) has close botanical relationship with the preceding; it is a somewhat shrubby plant, 6 to 12 ft. high, ..."

3. 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 (1892)
"Silver- weed, sprightly toad-flax, dead nettles, white and red, an oxeye daisy or two, towering foxgloves and others, whose names I knew not, ..."

4. Birds of California: An Introduction to More Than Three Hundred Common Birds by Irene Grosvenor Wheelock (1903)
"By September 1 the adults are in winter plumage and ready for their trip south. 242. LEAST SANDPIPER, OR MEADOW oxeye. ..."

5. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter (1909)
"CHRYSANTHEMUM L. oxeye DAISY Perennial herbs, with toothed, pinnatifid, or divided leaves, and single or ..."

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