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The oxeye daisy; -- called also moon daisy.

The oxeye daisy. See under Daisy.

A name locally applied to various wild plants, as dandelion, bluet, oxeye daisy, etc.

Ribwort plantain. See Ribwort. -- Robin's plantain, the Erigeron bellidifolium, a common daisylike plant of North America. -- Water plantain, a plant of the genus Alisma, having acrid leaves, and formerly regarded as a specific against hydrophobia. Loudon.

ving in a capitulum large ray florets which are unlike the disk florets, as in the aster, daisy, etc.

A ray, or outer floret, of the capitulum of such plants as the sunflower and the daisy. See Ray, 2.

f the marginal flowers of the capitulum in such composite plants as the aster, goldenrod, daisy, and sunflower. They have an elongated, strap-shaped corolla, while the corollas of the disk flowers are tubular and five-lobed. -- Ray point (Geom.), the common point of a pencil of rays. -- Röntgen ray ( (Phys.), a kind…

s of flowers, but the anthers are not connected. Sweet scabious (a) Mourning bride. (b) A daisylike plant (Erigeron annuus) having a stout branching stem.

The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.

e rays and a yellow disk, a common weed in grass lands and pastures; -- called also oxeye daisy.

xeye (Bot.), a yellow-flowered plant (Chrysanthemum segetum) closely related to the oxeye daisy. -- Yellow perch (Zoöl.), the common American perch. See Perch. -- Yellow pike (Zoöl.), the wall-eye. -- Yellow pine (Bot.), any of several kinds of pine; also, their yellowish and generally durable timber. Among the most…