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pheasant's eye
A name of certain plants: cf. pheasant-eyed.
1. The common name of plants of the genus Adonis, esp. A. autumnalis: = Adonis 2.
1733Miller Gard. Dict., Adonis, or Flos Adonis, Bird's-Eye, or Pheasant's-Eye. 1854S. Thomson Wild Fl. iii. (ed. 4) 209 The pheasant's eye,..with its bright scarlet flowers.
2. The common white Narcissus (N. poeticus).
1872Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. May 362/2 The Pheasant's eye (Narcissus poeticus). 1898Westm. Gaz. 30 Aug. 2/1 The ‘pheasant's eye’ narcissus grows wild upon these vine⁓covered hill-sides.
3. (Also pheasant-eye, pheasant's eye pink): the ring-flowered variety of the Garden Pink (Dianthus plumarius var. annulatus).
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., App., Pheasant's-eye Pink. 1824Loudon Encycl. Gard. (ed. 2) 860 The pink is considered..to have proceeded from D. deltoides,..and the pheasant-eye pinks from D. plumarius. 1884Miller Plant-n., Pink, Pheasant's-eye. |