Daisy (n.) A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family Compositae. The common English and classical daisy is B. prennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays. |
Daisy (n.) The whiteweed (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), the plant commonly called daisy in North America |
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 |
daisy chain (figurative) a series of associated things or people or experiences |
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 |
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 |