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Webster 1913 Edition


Oxeye

Ox′eyeˊ

,
Noun.
[
Ox
+
eye
.]
1.
(Bot.)
(a)
The oxeye daisy. See under
Daisy
.
(b)
The corn camomile (
Anthemis arvensis
).
(c)
A genus of composite plants (
Buphthalmum
) with large yellow flowers.
2.
(Zool.)
(a)
A titmouse, especially the great titmouse (
Parus major
) and the blue titmouse (
Parus coeruleus
).
[Prov. Eng.]
(b)
The dunlin.
(c)
A fish; the bogue, or box.
Creeping oxeye
(Bot.)
a West Indian composite plant (
Wedelia carnosa
).
–
Seaside oxeye
(Bot.)
,
a West Indian composite shrub (
Borrichia arborescens
).