Oxeye

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Oxeye \Ox"eye`\, n. [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.


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     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.
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     {Creeping oxeye} (Bot.) a West Indian composite plant
        ({Wedelia carnosa}).
  
     {Seaside oxeye} (Bot.), a West Indian composite shrub
        ({Borrichia arborescens}).
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Plover \Plov"er\, n. [OF. plovier, F. pluvier, prop., the rain
     bird, fr. LL. (assumed) pluviarius, fr. L. pluvia rain, from
     pluere to rain; akin to E. float, G. fliessen to flow. See
     {Float}.]
     1. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds
        belonging to the family {Charadrid[ae]}, and especially
        those belonging to the subfamily {Charadrins[ae]}. They
        are prized as game birds.
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     2. (Zool.) Any grallatorial bird allied to, or resembling,
        the true plovers, as the crab plover ({Dromas ardeola});
        the American upland, plover ({Bartramia longicauda}); and
        other species of sandpipers.
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     Note: Among the more important species are the {blackbellied
           plover} or {blackbreasted plover} ({Charadrius
           squatarola}) of America and Europe; -- called also
           {gray plover}, {bull-head plover}, {Swiss plover}, {sea
           plover}, and {oxeye}; the {golden plover} (see under
           {Golden}); the {ring plover} or {ringed plover}
           ({Aegialitis hiaticula}). See {Ringneck}. The {piping
           plover} ({Aegialitis meloda}); {Wilson's plover}
           ({Aegialitis Wilsonia}); the {mountain plover}
           ({Aegialitis montana}); and the {semipalmated plover}
           ({Aegialitis semipalmata}), are all small American
           species.
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     {Bastard plover} (Zool.), the lapwing.
  
     {Long-legged plover}, or {yellow-legged plover}. See
        {Tattler}.
  
     {Plover's page}, the dunlin. [Prov. Eng.]
  
     {Rock plover}, or {Stone plover}, the black-bellied plover.
        [Prov. Eng.]
  
     {Whistling plover}.
        (a) The golden plover.
        (b) The black-bellied plover.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  oxeye
       n 1: any North American shrubby perennial herb of the genus
            Heliopsis having large yellow daisylike flowers [syn: {heliopsis}]
       2: Eurasian perennial herbs having daisylike flowers with
          yellow rays and dark centers
       3: an oval or round dormer window