Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A yellow or white wildflower, especially a daisy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The dandelion.
- noun In Scotland, one of several different yellow flowers, as the dandelion, the common marigold, the hawkweed, the globe-flower, etc., but generally the daisy, Bellis perennis. Also
gowlan .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Scot. The daisy, or mountain daisy.
- noun (Min.) Decomposed granite.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Northumbrian The common
daisy . - noun mineralogy Decomposed
granite .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The marigold, or meadow gowan, is one of the "plants of the sun," the "golden flower."
Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910
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Our English Daisy is a composite flower which is called in the glossaries "gowan," or Yellow flower.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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BONNIE PEGGIE, O! Gang wi 'me to yonder howe, bonnie Peggie, O! Down ayont the gowan knowe, bonnie Peggie, O! When the siller burn rins clear,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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The lamb likes the gowan wi 'dew when it 's drowkit;
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various
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Bend to earth the gowan fair, down by yon burn side.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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Where the blue-bell and gowan lurk, lowly, unseen;
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In my fear I sat up amang my cairpets, like a puddock among gowan-leaves, and I listened wi 'a' my ears.
The Mystery of Cloomber Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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I remember his quoting with dramatic effect the curse uttered by Meg Merrilees upon Ellan-gowan -- a curse which he intended, of course, to apply to Mr. Gladstone.
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The opening gowan transplanted from its Scottish glen loses its modest charm and grows rank upon the prairies of the West even in its second year.
Round the World Andrew Carnegie 1877
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Do you know that this little daisy is the _gowan_ of Scotch poetry?
Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1 Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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