dwarf daisy
- noun
- Specialized
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margarita enana
- The dwarf daisy blooms early in spring, covering desert slopes with tiny yellow flowers.
Examples
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Gardeners appreciate the dwarf daisy for its ability to thrive in dry, rocky soils.
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Botanists noted the unique woolly leaves of the dwarf daisy during their field survey.
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The dwarf daisy blooms in early spring.
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Have you seen the dwarf daisies in the garden?
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The dwarf daisy blooms early in spring, covering desert slopes with tiny yellow flowers.
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Gardeners appreciate the dwarf daisy for its ability to thrive in dry, rocky soils.
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Botanists noted the unique woolly leaves of the dwarf daisy during their field survey.
Synonyms
A small plant that lives for one year with soft grey leaves and small yellow flower heads
A tiny grey woolly annual plant with small golden yellow flowers from the Mojave Desert
A small gray plant with soft hairy leaves and small golden-yellow flowers that grows in dry places
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a small daisy' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'dwarf' (very small) with 'daisy' (a type of flower); there is no idiomatic shift. This simple noun–noun compounding follows regular English morphology and is cross-linguistically predictable, so a B1 learner who knows both words should understand the MWE.
Etymology
Dwarf daisy The plant name dwarf daisy comes from its look: dwarf means very small, and the tiny yellow flower heads really look like little daisy flowers. The plant often grows low to the ground with woolly leaves to keep water, so the name tells you it is a 'small, daisy-like' plant that survives in dry places.
