| daisy cutter | a batted or served ball that skims along close to the ground |
| daisy chain | flower chain consisting of a string of daisies linked by their stems, worn by students on class day at some schools |
daisy print wheel
daisy wheel | a wheel around which is a set of print characters that make a typing impression on paper |
fragmentation bomb
antipersonnel bomb
anti-personnel bomb
daisy cutter | a bomb with onlytoper cent explosive and the remainder consisting of casings designed to break into many small high-velocity fragments, most effective against troops and vehicles |
| lazy daisy stitch | long chain stitches arranged in flower patterns |
| oxeye | an oval or round dormer window |
| daisy chain | (figurative) a series of associated things or people or experiences |
Hall Radclyffe Hall
Marguerite Radclyffe Hall | English writer whose novel about a lesbian relationship was banned in Britain for many years (-) |
mountain sandwort
mountain starwort
mountain daisy
Arenaria groenlandica | boreal or alpine sandwort |
livingstone daisy
Dorotheanthus bellidiformis | low-growing showy succulent annual of South Africa having white or pink or red or orange flowers and spatulate leaves covered in papillae that resemble small crystals |
pink-and-white everlasting
pink paper daisy
Acroclinium roseum | flower of southwestern Australia having bright pink daisylike papery flowers, grown for drying |
yellow chamomile
golden marguerite
dyers' chamomile
Anthemis tinctoria | Eurasian perennial herb with hairy divided leaves and yellow flowers, naturalized in North America |
woolly daisy
dwarf daisy
Antheropeas wallacei
Eriophyllum wallacei | tiny grey woolly tufted annual with small golden-yellow flower heads, southeastern California to northwestern Arizona and southwestern Utah, sometimes placed in genus Eriophyllum |
| African daisy | any of several plants of the genus Arctotis having daisylike flowers |
blue-eyed African daisy
Arctotis stoechadifolia
Arctotis venusta | bushy perennial of South Africa with white or violet flowers, in its native region often clothes entire valley sides in a sheet of color |
marguerite marguerite daisy
Paris daisy
Chrysanthemum frutescens
Argyranthemum frutescens | perennial subshrub of the Canary Islands having usually pale yellow daisylike flowers, often included in genus Chrysanthemum |
Michaelmas daisy
New York aster
Aster novi-belgii | North American perennial herb having small autumn-blooming purple or pink or white flowers, widely naturalized in Europe |
| daisy | any of numerous composite plants having flower heads with well-developed ray flowers usually arranged in a single whorl |
common daisy
English daisy
Bellis perennis | low-growing Eurasian plant with yellow central disc flowers and pinkish-white outer ray flowers |
Swan River daisy
Brachycome Iberidifolia | western Australian annual much cultivated for its flower heads with white or bluish to violet or variegated rays |
| oxeye | Eurasian perennial herbs having daisylike flowers with yellow rays and dark centers |
woodland oxeye
Buphthalmum salicifolium | hairy Eurasian perennial having deep yellow daisies on lax willowy stems, found in the wild in open woodland and on rocky slopes |
crown daisy
Chrysanthemum coronarium | shrubby annual of the Mediterranean region with yellowish-white flowers |
daisy fleabane
Erigeron annuus | widely naturalized white-flowered North American herb |
orange daisy
orange fleabane
Erigeron aurantiacus | mat-forming herb of Turkestan with nearly double orange-yellow flowers |
seaside daisy
beach aster
Erigeron glaucous | slightly succulent perennial with basal leaves and hairy sticky stems each bearing a solitary flower head with narrow pink or lavender rays, coastal bluffs Oregon to southern California |
showy daisy
Erigeron speciosus | plant having branching leafy stems each branch with an especially showy solitary flower head with many narrow pink or lavender or white rays, northwestern United States mountains |
blue daisy
blue marguerite
Felicia amelloides | hairy South African or Australian subshrub that has daisylike flowers with blue rays |
kingfisher daisy
Felicia bergeriana | softly hairy South African herb having flowers with bright blue rays |
| African daisy | African or Asiatic herbs with daisylike flowers |
Barberton daisy
Transvaal daisy
Gerbera jamesonii | widely cultivated South African perennial having flower heads with orange to flameolored rays |
camphor daisy
Haplopappus phyllocephalus | annual of southern United States and Mexico having bristly leaves and pale yellow flowers |
yellow spiny daisy
Haplopappus spinulosus | slender perennial of western North America having weakly bristly leaves and yellow flower heads |
strawflower golden everlasting
yellow paper daisy
Helichrysum bracteatum | Australian plant naturalized in Spain having flowers of lemon yellow to deep gold, the frequent choice of those who love dried flowers |
heliopsis
oxeye | any North American shrubby perennial herb of the genus Heliopsis having large yellow daisylike flowers |
oxeye daisy ox-eyed daisy
marguerite moon daisy
white daisy
Leucanthemum vulgare
Chrysanthemum leucanthemum | tall leafy-stemmed Eurasian perennial with white flowers, widely naturalized, often placed in genus Chrysanthemum |
oxeye daisy Leucanthemum maximum
Chrysanthemum maximum | similar to oxeye daisy |
shasta daisy
Leucanthemum superbum
Chrysanthemum maximum maximum | hybrid garden flower derived from Chrysanthemum maximum and Chrysanthemum lacustre having large white flower heads resembling oxeye daisies, often placed in the genus Chrysanthemum |
Pyrenees daisy
Leucanthemum lacustre
Chrysanthemum lacustre | perennial of Portugal similar to the oxeye daisy |
African daisy yellow ageratum
Lonas inodora
Lonas annua | shrub of southwestern Mediterranean region having yellow daisylike flowers |
tahoka daisy
tansy leaf aster
Machaeranthera tanacetifolia | wild aster with fernlike leaves and flower heads with very narrow bright purple rays, Alberta to Texas and Mexico |
blackfoot daisy
Melampodium leucanthum | bushy subshrub having flower heads that resemble asters with broad white rays, found in desert areas of Arizona east to Kansas and south to Mexico |
daisybush
daisy-bush
daisy bush | any of various mostly Australian attractively shaped shrubs of the genus Olearia grown for their handsome and sometimes fragrant evergreen foliage and profusion of daisy flowers with white or purple or blue rays |
painted daisy
pyrethrum Tanacetum coccineum
Chrysanthemum coccineum | spring-flowering garden perennial of Asiatic origin having finely divided aromatic leaves and white to pink-purple flowers, source of an insecticide, sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum |
Easter daisy
stemless daisy
Townsendia Exscapa | dwarf tufted nearly stemless herb having a rosette of woolly leaves and large whiteayed flower heads and bristly achenes, central Canada and United States west to Arizona |
turfing daisy Tripleurospermum oreades tchihatchewii
Matricaria oreades | mat-forming perennial herb of Asia Minor, sometimes included in genus Matricaria |
turfing daisy Tripleurospermum tchihatchewii
Matricaria tchihatchewii | low densely tufted perennial herb of Turkey having small white flowers, used as a ground cover in dry places, sometimes included in genus Matricaria |
cowpen daisy
golden crownbeard
golden crown beard
butter daisy
Verbesina encelioides
Ximenesia encelioides | coarse greyish-green annual yellow-flowered herb, southwestern United States to Mexico |
daisyleaf grape fern
daisy-leaved grape fern
Botrychium matricariifolium | of North America and Eurasia |
| daisy-chain | connect devices on a part of a chip or circuit board in a computer |