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Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1. tall leafy-stemmed Eurasian perennial with white flowers; widely naturalized; often placed in genus Chrysanthemum;
[syn: oxeye daisy, ox-eyed daisy, marguerite, moon daisy, white daisy, Leucanthemum vulgare, Chrysanthemum leucanthemum]
2. perennial subshrub of the Canary Islands having usually pale yellow daisylike flowers; often included in genus Chrysanthemum;
[syn: marguerite, marguerite daisy, Paris daisy, Chrysanthemum frutescens, Argyranthemum frutescens]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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. [1913 Webster]
