- 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).Want to learn more?
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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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