Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Either of two Eurasian plants of the genus Buphthalum, having daisylike flowers with yellow rays and dark centers.
- n. Any of various New World plants of the genus Heliopsis, having similar flowers.
- n. A round or oval dormer window.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In botany: Any plant of the composite genus Buphthalmum.
- n. The oxeye daisy. See daisy, and cut in next column.
- n. The corn-marigold (which see, under marigold).
- n. The American plant Heliopsis lævis.
- n. In ornithology: The greater titmouse, Parus major, called specifically big oxeye.
- n. The blue titmouse, P. cæruleus, called specifically blue oxeye.
- n. The black-bellied plover, Squatarola helvetica.
- n. The American dunlin, Pelidna americana.
- n. A cloudy speck or weather-gall, often seen on the coast of Africa, which presages a storm.
- n. plural Small concave mirrors made, especially in Nuremberg, of glass.
Wiktionary
- n. Several daisy-like flowers in various genera, especially the oxeye daisy.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The oxeye daisy. See under daisy.
- n. The corn camomile (Anthemis arvensis).
- n. A genus of composite plants (Buphthalmum) with large yellow flowers.
- n. Prov. Eng. A titmouse, especially the great titmouse (Parus major) and the blue titmouse (Parus cœruleus).
- n. The dunlin.
- n. A fish; the bogue, or box.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an oval or round dormer window
- n. any North American shrubby perennial herb of the genus Heliopsis having large yellow daisylike flowers
- n. Eurasian perennial herbs having daisylike flowers with yellow rays and dark centers
Etymologies
- ox + eye (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The UK Native Seed Hub will focus initially on plants of lowland meadows or semi-natural grassland like these oxeye daisies.”
“Species to be reintroduced include the harebell (Campanula rotundifolia), oxeye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) and sneezewort (Achillea ptarmica).”
“Burbank spent seventeen years hybridizing the common oxeye daisy with the English daisy, the German daisy, and the small but brilliantly white Japanese daisy.”
“Glasswort, saltwort, salt grasses and oxeye are other salt-tolerant plants that exist in and around the marsh.”
“The wild grass was tall and green and already there were flowers: oxeye daisies and marsh marigolds and violets.”
“That was a very early one, done with Venus colored pencils, but I liked the flower growing up beside the wooden post - it was a brilliant yellow and black oxeye - and even the sketch looked good in reproduction, as if the man who'd done it knew his business.”
“The intertidal marsh in North Inlet is dominated by smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora), while the high marsh community contains a mix of species, including smooth cordgrass, black needlerush, sea oxeye, salt grass, salt hay, salt marsh fimbristylis, glassworts, marsh elder and others.”
North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, South Carolina
“Such varieties can be developed at least as readily as the wonderful modern chrysanthemum has been developed from an insignificant little wild flower not half as interesting or promising originally as our common oxeye daisy, a well-known field weed.”
Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses
“The farmer in this locality must have an alert eye for Canada thistles and oxeye daisy.”
“A costly Diamond, that had once sparkled in a lady's ring, lay in a field amid tall grasses and oxeye daisies.”
Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘oxeye’.
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nouns
enfleurage, fautor, mafia, haslet, chopine, sea-gate, cantillation, formicary, go-devil, Gongorism, mamzer, mazarine and 147 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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See, The Eyes Have It
List of words (or phrases) containing eye-, -eye-, or -eye. Beginning with red-eye and eyebright.
I've since begun adding other more oblique terms that lack the string -eye-, but that...red-eye, eyebright, arguw-eye, bigeye, bird's-eye, buckeye, blarneyed, wheyey, eyebrow, eyecup, eyedropper, eyeful and 296 more...
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rays & x-rays
raised rays
cow-nosed ray, x-ray, roentgenogram, radiogram, sunray, tomograph, whipparee, oxeye, thulium, raster, moonbeam, robinia and 86 more...
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Flora
fenugreek, verbena, saxifrage, arbutus, calendula, nasturtium, lobelia, hellebore, rhododendron, philodendron, bellflower, heuchera and 449 more...
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Blue remembered hills
Flora, fauna and other things common in the time and place where I grew up
millipede, dock leaf, snowdrop, nettle, ragwort, oxeye, moss, bindweed, lichen, hay, forget-me-not, bluebell and 62 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for oxeye.
yarb Not just North American. Large white flowers called oxeye are abundant in parts of England. Nov 9, 2007