- a small wild flower with white petals around a yellow centre; a taller plant with similar but larger flowers see also Michaelmas daisyTopics Plants and treesc2Oxford Collocations DictionaryDaisy is used before these nouns:
- chain
Word OriginOld English dæges ēage ‘day's eye’ (because the flower opens in the morning and closes at night).
Idioms
See daisy in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybe pushing up (the) daisies
- (old-fashioned, humorous) to be dead and buried in the ground
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