meaning of daisy

1. A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family Compositae. The common English and classical daisy is B. prennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays.
2. The whiteweed (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), the plant commonly called daisy in North America; -- called also oxeye daisy. See Whiteweed.
3. Daisy A functional language. ["Daisy Programming Manual", S. D. Johnson, CS Dept TR, Indiana U, 1988]. DAISY 201 An early system on G-15. [Listed in CACM 25:16 May 1959]. daisy chain A bus wiring scheme in which, for example, device A is wired to device B, device B is wired to device C, etc. The last device is normally wired to a resistor or terminator. All devices may receive identical signals or, in contrast to a simple bus, each device in the chain may modify one or more signals before passing them on. Characteristic of RS-485, of Apples LocalTalk, and of various industrial control networks; also often used to describe Thinwire Ethernet 10base2.
4. any of numerous composite plants having flower heads with well-developed ray flowers usually arranged in a single whorl

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