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marguerite
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun marguerite has 2 senses
- marguerite(n = noun.plant) chrysanthemum leucanthemum, leucanthemum vulgare, moon daisy, ox-eyed daisy, oxeye daisy, white daisy - tall leafy-stemmed Eurasian perennial with white flowers; widely naturalized; often placed in genus Chrysanthemum; Array is a kind of flower
- marguerite(n = noun.plant) argyranthemum frutescens, chrysanthemum frutescens, marguerite daisy, paris daisy - perennial subshrub of the Canary Islands having usually pale yellow daisylike flowers; often included in genus Chrysanthemum; Array is a member of argyranthemum, genus argyranthemum
is a member of genus leucanthemum, leucanthemum
is a kind of subshrub, suffrutex
CIDE DICTIONARY
marguerite, n. [F., a pearl, a daisy. See Margarite.].
The daisy (Bellis perennis ). The name is often applied also to the ox-eye daisy and to the China aster. Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
marguerite, n. an ox-eye daisy.
Etymology
F f. L margarita f. Gk margarites f. margaron pearl
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