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Definition of Butter daisy
1. Noun. Coarse greyish-green annual yellow-flowered herb; southwestern United States to Mexico.
Generic synonyms: Crown Beard, Crown-beard, Crownbeard
Literary usage of Butter daisy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1917)
"butter daisy is a different rendering of yellow gowan. The word rose is another
term that once had a less restricted meaning than we allow it at present, ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"A platform or raised floor at one end or one side of a reception-room or hall,
upon which seats 'X — Butter-daisy, a name of specie* of lln i< ..."
3. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1847)
"BUTTER-DAISY. The white ox-eye. BUTTERED-ALE. Ale boiled with lump sugar, butter,
and spice. Salop. BUTTER-FINGERED. Slippery. Var. dial. BUTTER-MIT. ..."
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