snow daisy

English

Alternative forms

• snow-daisy

Noun

snow daisy (plural snow daisies)

1. (Australia, New Zealand) Any of various perennial herbs chiefly of the genus Celmisia, especially Celmisia asteliifolia, growing in high ground in southeastern Australia (including Tasmania) and New Zealand. [from 20th c.]
   • 1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 90:

     As he walks he spies a snow-daisy to one side of the pad.