Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various plants of the genus Gazania of the composite family, native to southern Africa and widely cultivated for their bright orange, red, yellow, or white daisylike flower heads.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of South African herbaceous composites, with large solitary heads of showy flowers, the rays expanding only in bright weather.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun any plant of the genus Gazania valued for their showy daisy flowers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany Any
flowering plant of the genusGazania , native to southernAfrica .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any plant of the genus Gazania valued for their showy daisy flowers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If you're a novice gardener who doesn't know a gazania from a geranium, you might be wondering what "plant hardiness zone" refers to on the information tags for flowers, trees, and other plants you've seen at your local gardening center or home center.
Tip of the Day: USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map can help you pick the right flowers and trees 2010
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If you're a novice gardener who doesn't know a gazania from a geranium, you might be wondering what "plant hardiness zone" refers to on the information tags for flowers, trees, and other plants you've seen at your local gardening center or home center.
Tip of the Day: USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map can help you pick the right flowers and trees 2010
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Olive tree, eucalyptus, the South African gazania flower, even cannabis is traceable in Seine-St-Denis hives, according to Yves Loublier, a pollen specialist with the French National Center for Scientific Research.
Pollen Nation 2009
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I drove past an untended guardhouse whose windows still bore masking-tape Ks, into a completely empty parking lot fringed with yellow gazania.
Devil's Waltz Kellerman, Jonathan 1992
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In a reasonably sized front yard in an average neighborhood near an average elementary school, there is an extraordinary flower by the name of the gazania.
SF0 2010
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In the afternoon, or on cloudy, shady days, the gazania gets tired of staring at the sun and closes its eyes (and petals) and goes to sleep. it looks dead and wilted at night, but it opens up again every morning, coming back to life like a zombie flower.
SF0 2010
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I haven't in three years seen a row of gazania (that pink flower, someone finally enlightened me to its name on Flickr) that glorious, and the revived chili plant is in bloom!
cheezy cheeky gorgeoux 2009
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So many pretty flowers–love the gaillardia and gazania–but it’s those mossy steps I’m fixated on. chuck b. said this on May 15, 2008 at 3:18 pm | Reply
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