Meaning & use
daisies
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“daisies” is a form of “daisy”. See that entry for the full set of meanings.
Meanings
nouncountable
Small wild or garden flowers with white petals around a yellow center.
Grammar: Plural of daisy.
Patterns
- a field of daisies
Children made chains from the daisies on the lawn.
Daisies opened across the meadow in the morning sun.
She picked a bunch of daisies for the kitchen table.
nounusually pluralhumorousinformal
Idiom: pushing up daisies means being dead and buried.
Grammar: Used in the fixed phrase 'pushing up daisies'.
Patterns
- be pushing up daisies
If you don't wear a seat belt, you'll be pushing up daisies.
The old gardener joked that he'd be pushing up daisies soon.
Word forms
| singular | daisy |
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Common combinations
- a field of daisies
- We lay in a field of daisies.
- wild daisies
- Wild daisies grew beside the railway.
- pushing up daisies
- Grandpa joked he'd soon be pushing up daisies.
- fresh as a daisy
- She woke up fresh as a daisy.
- daisy chain
- The girls wove a daisy chain from the daisies.
Synonyms and how they differ
- marguerites
- Marguerites is a more literary name for a type of large daisy and is less common than daisies.
- wildflowers
- Wildflowers is a wider group; daisies are one kind.
- blooms
- Blooms is any flowers, not only daisies.
Word family
- daisy noun
- the singular form
- daisy chain noun
- a string of daisies joined together
- daisylike adjective
- resembling a daisy
Commonly confused: daisies or dairies?
daisies vs dairies
Dairies are places that produce milk products. Daisies are flowers.
Practice
Which word names a small white flower with a yellow center?
Choose one answer.
Daisies are the flowers. Dairies, dazes and diaries are different words that look similar.
Make it your own
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