What's the difference between daisy and marguerite?

Daisy


Definition:

  • (n.) A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family Compositae. The common English and classical daisy is B. prennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays.
  • (n.) The whiteweed (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), the plant commonly called daisy in North America; -- called also oxeye daisy. See Whiteweed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Names, and the absence of them, could be important Facebook Twitter Pinterest Don’t look back … Daisy Ridley’s Rey and John Boyega’s stormtrooper Finn.
  • (2) More recently, Echinacea angustifolia - a wildflower native to North America and related to the daisy - was studied in depth by the Eclectics, a group of American medical herbalists practising from the 1850s to the 1930s.
  • (3) Many of Long’s pieces are fragile and fleeting: a stripe of un-mown grass in an otherwise close cropped lawn at the Henry Moore foundation , a misty circle in Scotland that lasted only until the day warmed up, a stripe of green grass left by plucking daisies, or paintings in wet mud that dry out and crumble.
  • (4) They said US forces had found a "daisy chain"– a long bomb rigged up from mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and a motorbike.
  • (5) It’s great that the new Star Wars film is more diverse , with John Boyega and Daisy Ridley in significant roles; I am pleased to see everyone on #BoycottStarWarsVII gnash and whine uselessly.
  • (6) Daisy just wanted to work and whenever she got cast in anything we all applauded.” His student film-makers were really excited seeing her pop up on Casualty, he says; imagine how they will feel when they see her lead the new Star Wars film.
  • (7) No wry observations or whoops-a-daisy trombones to subvert the conceit for period lolz.
  • (8) He talks up the "experience" aspect of Electric Daisy Carnival, from its dazzling barrage of state-of-the-art lighting to its dance troupes whose costumes are pitched midway between harlequin and hooker.
  • (9) He sounds fresh as a daisy, which is kind of insane.
  • (10) This interface required daisy chained controllers for port switching and a communications adapter for flow control.
  • (11) Is Rey (Daisy Ridley), the young woman striking an unlikely alliance with Finn (John Boyega), the guy in the stormtrooper gear, Luke’s child?
  • (12) Around this mere handful of works by its hero – which do at least include his sumptuous The Garden of Love (c 1635) and his vulnerable, shivering nude the Venus Frigida (1614) – the curators have strung together a fragile daisy chain of prints, copies and daubs of dubious relevance, and sometimes very poor quality.
  • (13) Older and shrewder by the late 2000s, the early 90s pioneers involved in Hard Events and Insomniac (the company behind Electric Daisy Carnival) learned how to work with the system, going through the bureaucratic hoops required to get permits, and providing the level of intensive security, entrance searches and overall safety provisions that would give political cover to their local government enablers.
  • (14) Daisy Sands, policy director of the Fawcett Society, blamed hurdles for women which included "discrimination at the selection process".
  • (15) Look closer, though, and you'll see Super Soakers pre-pumped by runners, and Daisy Dukes with their top buttons carefully, carelessly undone.
  • (16) And although that is still very much the case, I was really hoping this could be a movie that mothers could take their daughters to as well.” Where the original Star Wars trilogy featured Carrie Fisher’s Princess Leia as one of the main supporting characters, Abrams has introduced the mysterious Rey, played by British actor Daisy Ridley, in what appears to be a genuine lead role.
  • (17) Who knows, perhaps soon the concealed British penises of yesteryear might become proudly erect and engirdled with daisy chains wreathed by ardent lady lovers – just like in the novel Lady Chatterley's Lover , the ban on which had been overturned in 1960.
  • (18) Passenger Daisy McAndrew said she had been caught in the "unholy mess" at Gatwick as she tried to fly to Barcelona for work.
  • (19) It produced more people like Tom and Daisy Buchanan – the epitome of the idle rich who people The Great Gatsby – than it did the hard-working rich, aware of their social responsibilities.
  • (20) Daisy Goodwin, ex BBC producer, founder of independent producer Silver River, now majority owned by Sony A historic move?

Marguerite


Definition:

  • (n.) The daisy (Bellis perennis). The name is often applied also to the ox-eye daisy and to the China aster.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mother of seven Marguerite Mallot, 57, said: "They burned my son's house that he uses for selling some things, everything is burned."
  • (2) Yet Marguerite, a £3m project due to open at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in May, has a pedigree which elevates it above the crowd.
  • (3) Marguerite Champendal (1870-1928), one of the first Swiss nationals to graduate, created a school for nurses that she directed until her untimely death.
  • (4) Grossberg, Sidney E. (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France), Marguerite Lwoff, and André Lwoff.
  • (5) Marguerite Mallot, 57, says attacks by Seleka rebels are ongoing and violent.
  • (6) · Marguerite is on at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from May 7 to November 1.
  • (7) Inna Schevchenko, leader of the Femen movement, told journalists the protester was a French woman named Marguerite.
  • (8) Birch twig and marguerite most frequently induced symptoms, followed by strongly smelling flowers such as hyacinth, lilac, and lily of the valley.
  • (9) Schieffer obliged, collecting Marguerite Oswald and driving her to the police station, where police took him to be a "young detective" and agreed to allow Schieffer to speak to the suspect.
  • (10) With the assumption that a provocation test gives the correct diagnosis, the possibility of predicting an allergy by means of the case history, a skin test, radioallergosorbent test (RAST) and combinations of these methods was evaluated for house dust, cow-, cat-, dog-, and horse-dander, timothy-, marguerite-, dandelion- and birch-pollen allergens.
  • (11) The stark story of a failing romance between a French actor and a Japanese architect, it was directed by new wave pioneer Alain Resnais and scripted by Marguerite Duras.
  • (12) An extract of marguerite leaves was found to contain an agglutinin which has affinity for HBs (adr type) antigen-sensitized sheep erythrocytes and for pure HBs antigen.
  • (13) He and Marguerite continued to live happily in an unpretentious house in an unremarkable Parisian suburb.
  • (14) He also made some important friends, including Louis Althusser, Foucault and the psychoanalyst Marguerite Aucouturier, whom he married in 1957.
  • (15) We have met the same problems in the Service de Dermatology++ of the Hospital Sainte Marguerite at Marseille and we wished to make a deeper examination of the question and to ascertain whether the current cosmetics contained Kathon CG.
  • (16) In the lobby Judithe Jacques, who brought in her mother Marguerite with a broken knee, fought back tears.
  • (17) The results demonstrate that Cnicus benedictus (blessed thistle), Chrysanthemum leucanthemum (marguerite, ox-eye daisy) and Helianthus debilis (dwarf sunflower) are strong sensitizers while Helenium amarum (bitterweed), Gaillardia amblyodon (blanket flower), Artemisia ludoviciana (prairie sage), Ambrosia trifida (giant ragweed) and Solidago virgaurea (goldenrod) are medium sensitizers.
  • (18) Islands off the Cannes coast Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A cedar and oak forest runs down to the water’s edge on the southern flank of Sainte-Marguerite at Les Iles de Lérins, Alpes-Maritimes, a 20-minute boat ride from Cannes (€13.50 return horizon-lerins.com ).
  • (19) Most significantly, Marguerite will mark the end of Jonathan Kent's year-long tenure as artistic director of the Haymarket, an experimental appointment made, in the words of the theatre's general manager Nigel Everett, as a conscious attempt to "brain up" the West End.
  • (20) Most of the reactions obtained with other Compositae species such as arnica, marguerite, sunflower, tansy and yarrow must be interpreted as cross-reactions due to the fact that cross-reactivity predominates within the sesquiterpene lactone constituents of the various Compositae species.

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