daisy Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun any of numerous composite plants having flower heads with well-developed ray flowers usually arranged in a single whorl

OE. dayesye, AS. dægeseage day's eye, daisy. See Day, and Eye.

plural Daisies

(Bot.) (a) A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family Compositæ. The common English and classical daisy is B. prennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays. (b) The whiteweed (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), the plant commonly called daisy in North America; -- called also oxeye daisy. See Whiteweed. ✍ The word daisy is also used for composite plants of other genera, as Erigeron, or fleabane.