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Michaelmas daisy en · NOUN

Meanings

1. Any of several species and hybrids of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, particularly in the genera Aster or Symphyotrichum; a flower of any such plant.
   • He stood across in the other garden, beside a bush of pale Michaelmas daisies, watching the last bees crawl into the hive. 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 12”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
   • There was a lavatory at the end of the garden beyond a scraggy clump of Michaelmas daisies that never looked well in themselves, always sere, never blooming, the perennial ghosts of themselves, as if ill-nourished by an exhausted soil. 1976, Angela Carter, “The Mother Lode”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 3:

Forms

Relateds

Aster amellus

Translations (6)

cy ffarwel haf (Aster amellus) · fr marguerite de la Saint-Michel (Aster amellus) · fi elokuunasteri (Aster amellus) · la amellus (Aster amellus) · cy blodyn Mihangel (Aster amellus) · de Berg-Aster (Aster amellus)