Associations to the word «Marguerite»

Wiktionary

MARGUERITE, proper noun. A female given name borrowed from France in the 1860s.
MARGUERITE, noun. An oxeye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare).

Dictionary definition

MARGUERITE, noun. Tall leafy-stemmed Eurasian perennial with white flowers; widely naturalized; often placed in genus Chrysanthemum.
MARGUERITE, noun. Perennial subshrub of the Canary Islands having usually pale yellow daisylike flowers; often included in genus Chrysanthemum.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats