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daisy
dai·sy D0009200 (dā′zē)n. pl. dai·sies 1. Any of several plants of the composite family, especially:a. A widely naturalized Eurasian plant (Leucanthemum vulgare syn. Chrysanthemum leucanthemum) having flower heads with a yellow center and white rays. Also called oxeye daisy, white daisy.b. A low-growing plant (Bellis perennis) native to Europe and widely naturalized, having flower heads with white or pinkish rays. Also called English daisy.c. The flower head of any of these plants.2. Slang One that is deemed excellent or notable.
[Middle English daisie, from Old English dæges ēage : dæges, genitive of dæg, day; see agh- in Indo-European roots + ēage, eye; see okw- in Indo-European roots.]daisy (ˈdeɪzɪ) n, pl -sies1. (Plants) a small low-growing European plant, Bellis perennis, having a rosette of leaves and flower heads of yellow central disc flowers and pinkish-white outer ray flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)2. (Plants) Also called: oxeye daisy, marguerite or moon daisy a Eurasian composite plant, Leucanthemum vulgare having flower heads with a yellow centre and white outer rays3. (Plants) any of various other composite plants having conspicuous ray flowers, such as the Michaelmas daisy and Shasta daisy4. slang an excellent person or thing5. pushing up the daisies dead and buried[Old English dægesēge day's eye] ˈdaisied adjdai•sy (ˈdeɪ zi)
n., pl. -sies. 1. any of various composite plants that have flower heads of a yellow disk and white rays, as the English daisy and oxeye daisy. 2. Slang. someone or something of first-rate quality. Idioms: push up daisies, Informal. to be dead and buried. [before 1000; Middle English dayesye, Old English dægesēge the day's eye] dai′sied, adj. Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  daisy - any of numerous composite plants having flower heads with well-developed ray flowers usually arranged in a single whorlflower - a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossomsBellis, genus Bellis - daisyBellis perennis, common daisy, English daisy - low-growing Eurasian plant with yellow central disc flowers and pinkish-white outer ray flowers |
Translationsdaisy (ˈdeizi) – plural ˈdaisies – noun a type of small common flower with a yellow centre and usually white petals. The field was full of daisies. 雛菊 雏菊daisy
daisy chain1. noun Literally, a series of interwoven daisies, such as may be used for a garland. The children all wove little daisy chains to wear to the Midsummer pageant.2. noun Any series of interconnected events, experiences, happenings, or things. Our lives, which seem so enclosed unto themselves, are really complex daisy chains of the interactions we have with people from the day we are born until the day we die.3. noun In commerce, a series of securities transactions between companies intended to give the appearance of heavy active trading, thus attracting investors at an inflated price. The three CEOs were found guilty of colluding to form a daisy chain, but not before they had swindled investors out of millions.4. noun slang A group of three or more people engaged in simultaneous oral sexual activity.5. verb Of computers or their components, to connect or link together in a series so as to form a shared network. Sometimes hyphenated. Our wireless Internet had a terrible connection on the second floor, so we daisy chained a second router to the main one downstairs. When the Internet went down, I had to daisy chain several laptops to my PC to access its files for the meeting.See also: chain, daisybe (as) fresh as a daisyTo be eager and enthusiastic, typically after some refreshing activity. After getting some sleep, I was as fresh as a daisy. Now that I've showered, I'm fresh as a daisy!See also: daisy, freshbe pushing up (the) daisiesslang To be dead. This phrase alludes to one having been buried underground. I'll be pushing up the daisies long before taxes in our city go down. You'll be pushing up daisies when mom finds out that you dented her brand-new car.See also: daisy, pushing, uppushing up (the) daisiesslang Deceased. The phrase alludes to one having been buried, with daisies growing over one's burial plot. You'll be pushing up daisies when Mom finds out that you dented her brand-new car. I'll be pushing up the daisies long before the price of property goes down in our city.See also: daisy, pushing, uppush up (the) daisiesslang To be deceased. The phrase alludes to one having been buried, with daisies growing over one's burial plot. You'll be pushing up daisies when Mom finds out that you dented her brand-new car. I'll be pushing up the daisies long before the price of property goes down in our city.See also: daisy, push, up(as) fresh as a daisy1. Eager and enthusiastic, typically after some refreshing activity. After getting some sleep, I was as fresh as a daisy. Now that I've showered, I'm fresh as a daisy!2. Very clean and tidy or well-kept. A new coat of paint will have this place looking as fresh as a daisy.See also: daisy, fresh*fresh as a daisyCliché very fresh; [of a person] always alert and ready to go. (*Also: as ~.) How can you be fresh as a daisy so early in the morning? I always feel fresh as a daisy after a shower.See also: daisy, freshpushing up (the) daisiesFig. dead and buried. (Usually in the future tense.) I'll be pushing up daisies before this problem is solved. If you talk to me like that again, you'll be pushing up the daisies.See also: daisy, pushing, updaisy chain1. A series of connected events, activities, or experiences. For example, The daisy chain of lectures on art history encompassed the last 200 years. This metaphorical term alludes to a string of the flowers linked together. [Mid-1800s] 2. A line or circle of three or more persons engaged in simultaneous sexual activity. For example, A high-class call girl, she drew the line at daisy chains. [ Vulgar slang; 1920s] 3. A series of securities transactions intended to give the impression of active trading so as to drive up the price. For example, The SEC is on the alert for unscrupulous brokers who are engaging in daisy chains. [1980s] See also: chain, daisyfresh as a daisyWell rested, energetic, as in I'm finally over my jet lag and feel fresh as a daisy. This simile may allude to the fact that a daisy's petals fold at night and open in the morning. [Late 1700s] See also: daisy, freshpush up daisiesBe dead and buried, as in There is a cemetery full of heroes pushing up daisies. This slangy expression, alluding to flowers growing over a grave, was first recorded about 1918, in one of Wilfred Owen's poems about World War I. See also: daisy, push, upbe pushing up the daisies If someone is pushing up the daisies, they are dead. Instead of pushing up the daisies, he is still among the living, grey whiskers and all. Note: This expression is used humorously. See also: daisy, pushing, upfresh as a daisy 1. If someone is as fresh as a daisy, they are full of energy and not at all tired. Once you've done some stretching exercises, you will be as fresh as a daisy again.2. If something is as fresh as a daisy, it is very fresh, clean and bright. Choose a Victorian-style bed and use linen to make it look as fresh as a daisy.See also: daisy, freshfresh as a daisy very bright and cheerful. informal This expression alludes to a daisy reopening its petals in the early morning or to its welcome appearance in springtime. The freshness of daisies has been a literary commonplace since at least the late 14th century, when it was used by Chaucer.See also: daisy, freshpushing up the daisies dead and buried. informal This phrase, a humorous early 20th-century euphemism, is now the most frequently used of several daisy-related expressions for being in the grave. Other idioms include under the daisies and turn your toes up to the daisies , both dating from the mid 19th century.See also: daisy, pushing, up(as) fresh as a ˈdaisy lively or clean and neat: Even when it’s so hot, she looks as fresh as a daisy. How does she do it?See also: daisy, freshbe ˌpushing up (the) ˈdaisies (old-fashioned, humorous) be dead and in a grave: I’ll be pushing up daisies by the time that happens.A daisy is a small white flower that often grows in grass.See also: daisy, pushing, up(as) fresh as a daisy mod. someone who is always alert and ready to go. How can you be fresh as a daisy so early in the morning? See also: daisy, freshfresh as a daisy verbSee as fresh as a daisySee also: daisy, freshdaisy n. an excellent thing. (see also doosie.) I want a daisy of a haircut. Something unusual with bangs or something. pushing up daisies mod. dead and buried. (Folksy. Usually in the future tense.) I’ll be pushing up daisies before this problem is solved. See also: daisy, pushing, up push up daisies Slang To be dead and buried: a cemetery of heroes pushing up daisies.See also: daisy, push, upfresh as a daisyVigorous, well rested, full of energy. This simile has survived the much older fresh as a rose, used by Chaucer and seldom heard today. It dates from the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. Dickens used it to perfection in The Cricket on the Hearth (1845): “She presently came bouncing back—the saying is as fresh as any daisy; I say fresher.” The daisy’s name comes from the Old English daeges eage, meaning “day’s eye,” which refers to the flower’s yellow disk. Like many flowers, daisies close their petals in the evening, concealing the disk, and reopen them in the morning; possibly the simile alludes to this characteristic.See also: daisy, freshpush up daisies, toBe dead and buried. The phrase was first recorded in 1918, in one of Wilfred Owen’s poems about World War I, and alludes to flowers growing over a soldier’s grave in France. It soon passed into the civilian vocabulary, where it continues to refer to being dead. Georgette Heyer had it in Blunt Instrument (1938): “‘Where is the wife now?’ . . . ‘Pushing up daisies. . . . died a couple of years ago.’”See also: push, updaisy
daisy [O.E.,=day's eye], name for several common wildflowers of the family Asteraceae (asteraster
[Gr.,=star], common name for the Asteraceae (Compositae), the aster family, in North America, name for plants of the genus Aster, sometimes called wild asters, and for a related plant more correctly called China aster (Callistephus chinensis
..... Click the link for more information. family). The daisy of literature, the true daisy, is Bellis perennis, called in the United States English daisy. This is a low European plant, cultivated in the United States mostly in the double form, with heads of white, pink, or red flowers. The English daisy, which closes at night, has long been considered the flower of children and of innocence. A purple species native to the lower Mississippi basin is called Western daisy (Astranthum or Bellis integrifolium). The common, often weedy, daisy of the United States (Chrysanthemum leucanthemum), called also white, or oxeye, daisy, is native to Europe but naturalized in America. The white daisy is one of the plants named marguerite, but the usual marguerite in cultivation is C. frutescens, a bushy perennial with white or lemon-yellow flowers, native to the Canary Islands and called also Paris daisy. Among other plants called daisy, yellow daisy is a synonym for the black-eyed Susanblack-eyed Susan
or yellow daisy,
North American daisylike wildflower (Rudbeckia hirta) of the family Asteraceae (aster family) with yellow rays and a dark brown center. It is a weedy biennial or annual and grows in dry places.
..... Click the link for more information. ; Michaelmas daisy, for an asteraster
[Gr.,=star], common name for the Asteraceae (Compositae), the aster family, in North America, name for plants of the genus Aster, sometimes called wild asters, and for a related plant more correctly called China aster (Callistephus chinensis
..... Click the link for more information. . The seaside daisy and daisy fleabane are species of the fleabanefleabane,
any plant of the genus Erigeron, widely distributed herbs of the family Asteraceae (aster family), especially abundant in temperate and mountainous regions of North America.
..... Click the link for more information. genus. Daisies are classified in the division MagnoliophytaMagnoliophyta
, division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
..... Click the link for more information. , class Magnoliopsida, order Asterales, family Asteraceae.What does it mean when you dream about a daisy?Daisies can represent beauty, purity, and innocence. Their color also links them to the sun, and thus to enlightenment and illumination. daisya flower traditionally displayed in homes during Easter season. [Christian Tradition: Jobes, 487]See: Easter
daisysymbol of blamelessness. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 173; Kunz, 328]See: Innocence
daisyprovides protection against fairies. [Flower Symbolism: Briggs, 87]See: Protectiondaisy1. a small low-growing European plant, Bellis perennis, having a rosette of leaves and flower heads of yellow central disc flowers and pinkish-white outer ray flowers: family Asteraceae (composites) 2. a Eurasian composite plant, Leucanthemum vulgare having flower heads with a yellow centre and white outer rays 3. any of various other composite plants having conspicuous ray flowers, such as the Michaelmas daisy and Shasta daisy DaisyA functional language.
["Daisy Programming Manual", S.D. Johnson, CS Dept TR, IndianaU, 1988].DAISY(Digital Accessible Information SYstem) See DTBook.daisy
dai·sy (dā'zē), Colloquial term descriptive of the segmented forms (merozoites) of the mature schizont of Plasmodium malariae.Referring to a pattern with a central mass surrounded, rosette-like, with oval structures that abut a central mass at one endDAISY
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daisy
Words related to daisynoun any of numerous composite plants having flower heads with well-developed ray flowers usually arranged in a single whorlRelated Words- flower
- Bellis
- genus Bellis
- Bellis perennis
- common daisy
- English daisy
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