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- noun Plural form of
daisy .
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Examples
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Recalls Johnny Cash's visit to Starkville, Mississippi long ago ( "Just pickin 'daisies").
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I mean pushing daisies is a great show, so he better stay with it and fight for it to stay on air, instead of like tonight it being replaced with DANCING WITH THE STARS.
Pushing Daisies Creator Bryan Fuller to Return to Heroes? | /Film 2008
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If it is, I will be investing in daisies, pails and cement.
Think Progress » Some sources tell the San Diego Union Tribune 2006
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My American friend's name wasn't drawn, but she already had won her prize - a small cluster of daisies from a little child who wondered if she were a mother.
Mother's Day In Mata 1999
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My American friend's name wasn't drawn, but she already had won her prize - a small cluster of daisies from a little child who wondered if she were a mother.
Mother's Day In Mata 1999
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Francesca had got a big parcel from home, and the table was laid with Norwegian Christmas fare, decorated with daisies from the Campagna and candles in seven-branched candlesticks.
Jenny: A Novel 1921
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One o 'the Devons, he was sittin' on a biscuit-tin, singin ':' The fields were white wi 'daisies' -- singing.
Tatterdemalion John Galsworthy 1900
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Natalie Keyssar for The Wall Street Journal The Rob Buchholz daisies atop the condo at 305 W. 16th St. The building that boasts the daisies is an otherwise stark, seven-story, 53-unit condo at 305 W. 16th St. that has yet to open.
Oversize City Sprouts Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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The asters, often wrongly called daisies, are represented by several species, some of which blossom early, and are at their best along with the spring flowers.
The Mountain that was 'God' Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier' John H. Williams
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The daisies are a stalwart little people altogether.
The Extra Day Algernon Blackwood 1910
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