daisy

«daisy» in Mova's school dictionary: a small flower with white petals around a yellow middle — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (daisy, daisies)

meaning for a pupil

1) A daisy is a small flower with white petals around a yellow middle. tree →

2) Other flowers shaped like it, of many colours, are also called daisies. tree →

sense in the lessons

maths: flowers counted, picked, planted or put in bunches; petals counted; rows of plants (rows × plants in each); science: parts of a flower, plants need sun and water; everyday life: daisy chains on the grass; phrases: «fresh as a daisy»

examples

• She picked 12 daisies. tree →
• Each daisy has 20 petals. tree →
• There are 5 rows of daisies with 8 in each row. tree →
• He gave 3 daisies to his mom. tree →
• We made a daisy chain in the park. tree →
• Daisies close their petals at night. tree →
• The lawn is full of daisies. tree →
• She felt as fresh as a daisy. tree →
• It is a simple daisy, just bursting out of the bud. tree →

note

Thing counted. Trap: the plural is «daisies». Daisy is also a girl's name (with a capital D).

In the corpora

• There they find Taffy making daisy-chains and Tegumai happily spearing small carp with his mended spear.
• "Pushing up daisies" means dead and buried; it is a joke about flowers growing on a grave.
• Daisy scrolls Instagram and sees Dad's new family: two little kids at the beach, Dad grinning.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «daisy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.