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# daisy

«daisy» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small flower with white petals around a yellow middle** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (daisy, daisies)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A daisy is a small flower with white petals around a yellow middle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daisy/#m1)

2) Other flowers shaped like it, of many colours, are also called daisies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daisy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

maths: flowers counted, picked, planted or put in bunches; petals counted; rows of plants (rows × plants in each); science: parts of a flower, plants need sun and water; everyday life: daisy chains on the grass; phrases: «fresh as a daisy»

### examples

- She picked 12 daisies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daisy/#x1)
- Each daisy has 20 petals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daisy/#x2)
- There are 5 rows of daisies with 8 in each row. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daisy/#x3)
- He gave 3 daisies to his mom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daisy/#x4)
- We made a daisy chain in the park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daisy/#x5)
- Daisies close their petals at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daisy/#x6)
- The lawn is full of daisies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daisy/#x7)
- She felt as fresh as a daisy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daisy/#x8)
- It is a simple daisy, just bursting out of the bud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daisy/#x9)

### note

Thing counted. Trap: the plural is «daisies». Daisy is also a girl's name (with a capital D).

### In the corpora

- [There they find Taffy making daisy-chains and Tegumai happily spearing small carp with his mended spear.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/85-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes/9/)
- ["Pushing up daisies" means dead and buried; it is a joke about flowers growing on a grave.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/11/)
- [Daisy scrolls Instagram and sees Dad's new family: two little kids at the beach, Dad grinning.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/517-the-parent-who-left-and-a-new-partner/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «daisy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daisy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.