Meaning

9 senses
  1. Several daisy-like flowers in various genera,

    Heliopsis spp.

  2. Heteranthemis viscidehirta

  3. Telekia speciosa

  4. Any oxeye daisy.

    Leucanthemum vulgare

  5. Any of a genus of composite plants (Buphthalmum spp.), with large yellow flowers.

    any North American shrubby perennial herb of the genus Heliopsis having large yellow daisylike flowers

  6. The corn camomile (Anthemis arvensis).

  7. A titmouse, especially the great titmouse (Parus major) or the blue titmouse (Parus caeruleus).

  8. The dunlin (Calidris alpina)

  9. A fish of species Boops boops (bogue, box)

Origin

From ox + eye. Apparently in some senses, specifically Buphthalmum, translated from Arabic

From ox + eye. Apparently in some senses, specifically Buphthalmum, translated from Arabic عَيْن الْبَقَر (ʕayn al-baqar, literally “ox-eye”), as also the case for French œil-de-bœuf.

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Forms

plural: oxeyes
Singularoxeye
Pluraloxeyes

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • any North American shrubby perennial herb of the genus Heliopsis having large yellow daisylike flowers:heliopsis

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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