moon daisy
- noun
- UK
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margarita lunar
- The field was covered in blooming moon daisies, creating a beautiful white carpet under the summer sun.
Examples
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Gardeners often plant moon daisy for its resilience and attractive white flowers.
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A single moon daisy stood out among the taller grasses near the roadside.
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Look at that moon daisy!
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The moon daisy blooms in the summer.
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The field was covered in blooming moon daisies, creating a beautiful white carpet under the summer sun.
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Gardeners often plant moon daisy for its resilience and attractive white flowers.
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A single moon daisy stood out among the taller grasses near the roadside.
Synonyms
A tall plant from Europe and Asia with leafy stems and white daisy-like flowers
A tall plant that comes back every year with white daisy-like flowers
A tall plant with white petals and a yellow center that comes back each year
A common wildflower with white petals and a yellow center that blooms in fields
A tall plant with white petals and a yellow center that grows in fields and gardens
Surface Forms
Morphology
moon + daisy
The noun composition 'moon' + 'daisy' clearly signals a subtype of daisy (modifier + head-noun pattern), so a B1 learner who knows both words would infer it is a kind of flower likely associated with the moon (e.g., pale or nocturnal). However, the specific botanical details (tall Eurasian perennial, Chrysanthemum classification) are not derivable from the constituents alone and require extra world knowledge, so the expression is only partially predictable.
Etymology
Moon daisy may come from the look of its flowers: the white, round blooms in a field look like small moons among the grass, and the plant is a familiar daisy. So today moon daisy means 'a tall plant with white, daisy-like flowers'.
