mountain daisy
- noun
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margarita de montaña
- During the summer, mountain daisies carpet the slopes with tiny white flowers.
Examples
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The mountain daisy thrives in cold, high-altitude meadows.
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Hikers admired the resilience of the mountain daisy growing between rocks.
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The mountain daisy blooms in the summer.
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I saw a mountain daisy on my hike.
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During the summer, mountain daisies carpet the slopes with tiny white flowers.
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Hikers admired the resilience of the mountain daisy growing between rocks.
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The mountain daisy thrives in cold, high-altitude meadows.
Synonyms
A small, low flowering plant that forms soft round clumps on cold mountain and northern tundra slopes
A small plant with many short stems and white flowers that grows on high rocky ground
A small plant with white flowers that grows in high mountains or cold northern areas
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning — a daisy-like plant associated with mountains or alpine/boreal regions — is directly and predictably from combining 'mountain' (mountainous) with 'daisy' (a type of flower). This modifier + noun compounding is a common, transparent pattern in English and other languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Mountain daisy comes from a simple picture: a small daisy growing on a mountain. So, the name means 'a small, daisy-like plant that grows on high, often cold slopes'.
