daisy means A wild flowering plant of species Bellis perennis of the family Asteraceae, with a yellow head and white petals.
daisy is pronounced /ˈdeɪ.zi/.
Why “daisy” is a great word
A common wild flowering plant characterized by a yellow central disc surrounded by white ray florets. From Middle English dayesye, from Old English dæġes ēage, literally 'day's eye', because the flower opens its petals at dawn and closes them at dusk. Unlike the ornate, cultivated 'chrysanthemum' or the solitary, glossy 'buttercup', the daisy is a modest composite of field and lawn. It is the white star punctuating the grass, the chain of a child's crown, and the humble eye tracking the sun—a perfect, ephemeral clock built for a single day.
Etymology
From Middle English dayesye, from Old English dæġes ēage (“daisy”, literally “day's eye”) due to the flowers closing their blossoms during night. The rhyming slang comes from daisy roots for boots.
noun
- A wild flowering plant of species Bellis perennis of the family Asteraceae, with a yellow head and white petals
- Any of numerous other flowering plants of various species, mostly among the asterids.
- A boot or other footwear.
- Something splendid; a doozy.“Then Dan drew the sheath-knife and tested the edge of it on the gunwale.
"That's a daisy," said Harvey. "How did you get it so cheap?"”
- A Girl Scout at the initial introductory level.
name
- A female given name from English.“Mrs. Fairfax kept always an eye upon him, and in spite of his familiarity with her, so restrained him in his intercourse with Margaret, that he could not for his life call her Daisy any more, though he had done so on the first day of their acquaintance.”
- A common name for a cow.“The heifer Daisy died in September 1811.”
- A surname.
Words closest in meaning
By meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.
- chrysanthemum 83% match — Any of many flowering perennial plants, of the genus Chrysanthemum, native to China, that have showy radiate heads. vs daisy →
- moonflower 81% match — Any of several plants that flower at night:; An ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) vs daisy →
- edelweiss 81% match — A European perennial alpine plant (Leontopodium alpinum), with downy leaves and small white flower heads in a dense cluster. vs daisy →
- primrose 81% match — A flowering plant of the genus Primula. vs daisy →
- cowslip 81% match — A low-growing plant, Primula veris, with yellow flowers. vs daisy →
- wildflower 81% match — A wild (uncultivated) flowering plant. vs daisy →
- blowball 81% match — The downy seedhead of a dandelion, a dandelion clock. vs daisy →
- daffodil 80% match — A bulbous plant of the genus Narcissus, with yellow flowers and a trumpet shaped corona, especially Narcissus pseudonarcissus, the national flower of Wales. vs daisy →