Daisy

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In Anthroponymy:

• Daisy (given name)

In biology many plants, especially of the Asteraceae family:

• African Daisy, many species in several genera native to Africa
• Common Daisy, Bellis species, particularly Bellis perennis
• Michaelmas Daisy, Aster (genus) species
• Painted Daisy, Pyrethrum Daisy, Tanacetum species
• Oxeye daisy, Leucanthemum species, particularly Leucanthemum vulgare
• Shasta daisy, Leucanthemum x superbum (formerly Chrysanthemum maximum)
• Moon Daisy, Leucanthemopsis species
• Marguerite Daisy, Argyranthemum frutescens is a perennial plant used in horticulture that originates from the Canary Islands
• Crown Daisy or Garland Chrysanthemum, Glebionis coronaria
• Tricolor Daisy, Glebionis carinata
• Yellow Ox-eye Daisy, Rudbeckia hirta
• Gerbera Daisy, an annual flower vaguely resembling the common daisy
• Erigeron, the indigenous roadside daisies of North America

In geography, places in the United States:

• Daisy, Arkansas
• Daisy, Georgia
• Daisy, Maryland
• Daisy, Oklahoma

In entertainment:

• Daisy, a fictional character from Oswald (television)
• Daisy (Keeping Up Appearances), a character on the British comedy television series Keeping Up Appearances
• "Daisy Bell", a popular song
• Nickname for actor David Wenham
• Daisy (film), a South Korean movie
• Daisy (Malayalam film), a Malayalam movie
• Daisies (film), a 1966 Czech film by Věra Chytilová
• D.A.I.S.Y., an acronym for "Da Inner Sound, Y'all", coined on the album 3 Feet High and Rising by De La Soul
• "Humble Daisy", a song in praise of the flower by XTC, appearing on Nonsuch (album)
• Daisy Pulls It Off, an English play
• Please Don't Eat the Daisies, a novel which was adapted into a 1960 film starring Doris Day and David Niven, and later into a TV series
• "Daisy", a single by Halfway to Hazard

In fiction:

• Daisy Adair, A character from the television show Dead Like Me
• Daisy Buchanan, a character from The Great Gatsby
• Daisy, the Bumstead family dog in Blondie (comic strip)
• Daisy Kidd, a character from Ramona (series)
• Daisy Duck, a Walt Disney character
• Daisy Duke, a character from The Dukes of Hazzard
• Daisy the Diesel Rail-Car, a character from The Railway Series books by Rev. W. Awdry
• Daisy Mae Scragg, cartoon character from Li'l Abner
• Daisy Mayhem, a cartoon character from Laff-A-Lympics
• Daisy Miller, an 1878 novella by Henry James or its eponymous character
• Daisy Watkins, a cartoon character from Static Shock
• Miss Daisy Wertham, a fictional character from Driving Miss Daisy
• Mrs Daisy Shannon, a fictional character who keeps a racing stable in the crime novel Look to the Lady
• In the pokémon TV series, Daisy (original Japanese name Sakura) is one of Misty's three elder sisters.
• Princess Daisy, a character in the Mario series of video games.

In politics:

• Daisy (television commercial), aired by the Lyndon B. Johnson campaign in the 1964 presidential election
• Democracy is Freedom – Daisy, a former moderate centre-left party in Italy

In business:

• Daisy wheel printer, a printer with the print head shaped like a daisy flowerhead

In software:

• DAISY Standard, a NISO Standard that defines an accessible XML structure for books
• Daisy (software), an open source content management system from Apache

Other uses:

• Daisy Geyser in the Upper Geyser Basin of Yellowstone
• DAISY Digital Talking Book, a set of DAISY Standard XML files that enable reading of multimedia publications for persons who are print-disabled
• Daisy chain, a chain made with daisy flowers
• Daisy (dog), the pet of German fashion designer Rudolph Moshammer
• Daisy Dukes, a fashion clothing from The Dukes of Hazzard
• Daisy cutter (fuse), a type of fuse used in some bombs
• Daisy (cocktail), a cocktail with many variants
• Daisy Rock Guitars, a manufacturer of guitars especially designed for women
• "Daisy", the nickname of Juliette Gordon Low, the founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA
• "Daisy", the nickname of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark among members of the royal family
• Daisy Girl Scouts, the youngest level in the Girl Scouts of the USA
• Daisy, a character from The Naked Brothers Band
• Daisy Outdoor Products, makers of a type of BB gun/Air rifle known as a "Daisy"
• Daisy, a meerkat in the television series Meerkat Manor
• Daisy, an orangutan featured in the television series Orangutan Island
• Daisy, a perfume for women by Marc Jacobs.