雏菊

[ noun ]
low-growing Eurasian plant with yellow central disc flowers and pinkish-white outer ray flowers
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Marguerite \Mar"gue*rite\, n. [F., a pearl, a daisy. See
{Margarite}.] (Bot.)
The daisy ({Bellis perennis}). The name is often applied also
to the ox-eye daisy and to the China aster. --Longfellow.


Daisy \Dai"sy\ (d[=a]"z[y^]), n.; pl. {Daisies} (d[=a]"z[i^]z).
[OE. dayesye, AS. d[ae]ges-e['a]ge day's eye, daisy. See
{Day}, and {Eye}.] (Bot.)
(a) A genus of low herbs ({Bellis}), belonging to the family
{Composit[ae]}. The common English and classical daisy is
{Bellis perennis}, 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}.

Note: The word daisy is also used for composite plants of
other genera, as {Erigeron}, or fleabane.

{Michaelmas daisy} (Bot.), any plant of the genus {Aster}, of
which there are many species.

{Oxeye daisy} (Bot.), the whiteweed. See {Daisy}
(b) .