Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several plants in the composite family, especially of the genera Buphthalmum and Heliopsis, having flowers with yellow rays and yellow or orange centers.
- noun A round or oval dormer window.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany: Any plant of the composite genus Buphthalmum.
- noun The oxeye daisy. See
daisy , and cut in next column. - noun The corn-marigold (which see, under
marigold ). - noun The American plant Heliopsis lævis.
- noun In ornithology: The greater titmouse, Parus major, called specifically big oxeye.
- noun The blue titmouse, P. cæruleus, called specifically blue oxeye.
- noun The black-bellied plover, Squatarola helvetica.
- noun The American dunlin, Pelidna americana.
- noun A cloudy speck or weather-gall, often seen on the coast of Africa, which presages a storm.
- noun plural Small concave mirrors made, especially in Nuremberg, of glass.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The oxeye daisy. See under
daisy . - noun The corn camomile (
Anthemis arvensis ). - noun A genus of composite plants (Buphthalmum) with large yellow flowers.
- noun Prov. Eng. A titmouse, especially the great titmouse (
Parus major ) and the blue titmouse (Parus cœruleus ). - noun The dunlin.
- noun A fish; the bogue, or box.
- noun (Bot.) a West Indian composite plant (
Wedelia carnosa ). - noun (Bot.) a West Indian composite shrub (
Borrichia arborescens ).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Several
daisy -likeflowers in various genera, especially theoxeye daisy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an oval or round dormer window
- noun any North American shrubby perennial herb of the genus Heliopsis having large yellow daisylike flowers
- noun Eurasian perennial herbs having daisylike flowers with yellow rays and dark centers
Etymologies
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Examples
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Species to be reintroduced include the harebell (Campanula rotundifolia), oxeye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) and sneezewort (Achillea ptarmica).
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The UK Native Seed Hub will focus initially on plants of lowland meadows or semi-natural grassland like these oxeye daisies.
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Burbank spent seventeen years hybridizing the common oxeye daisy with the English daisy, the German daisy, and the small but brilliantly white Japanese daisy.
Jane S. Smith: Daisies, Weddings, and Making the Ideal Real 2009
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That was a very early one, done with Venus colored pencils, but I liked the flower growing up beside the wooden post - it was a brilliant yellow and black oxeye - and even the sketch looked good in reproduction, as if the man who'd done it knew his business.
Duma Key King, Stephen, 1947- 2008
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The wild grass was tall and green and already there were flowers: oxeye daisies and marsh marigolds and violets.
Red Knife William Kent Krueger 2008
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The wild grass was tall and green and already there were flowers: oxeye daisies and marsh marigolds and violets.
Red Knife William Kent Krueger 2008
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Glasswort, saltwort, salt grasses and oxeye are other salt-tolerant plants that exist in and around the marsh.
Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve, Georgia 2008
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The wild grass was tall and green and already there were flowers: oxeye daisies and marsh marigolds and violets.
Red Knife William Kent Krueger 2008
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The wild grass was tall and green and already there were flowers: oxeye daisies and marsh marigolds and violets.
Red Knife William Kent Krueger 2008
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The intertidal marsh in North Inlet is dominated by smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora), while the high marsh community contains a mix of species, including smooth cordgrass, black needlerush, sea oxeye, salt grass, salt hay, salt marsh fimbristylis, glassworts, marsh elder and others.
North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, South Carolina 2007
yarb commented on the word oxeye
Not just North American. Large white flowers called oxeye are abundant in parts of England.
November 9, 2007