1A southern African plant of the daisy family, sometimes grown as a border plant.
异果菊，非洲雏菊
Genus Dimorphotheca, family Compositae
Example sentencesExamples
As time goes by, and as our winters become increasingly mild, as predicted, we may also be able to grow aloes (A. vera, however, prefers sub- or tropical conditions) and the wonderfully coloured dimorphothecas outside in the future in the hope that they may perennate.
In August and September of each year it becomes a magnificent carpet of colourful flowers with ursinias, arctotis, dimorphothecas, gazanias and mesembs (commonly known in South Africa as vygies).
1.1(in gardening) any of a number of plants of the genus Osteospermum that are similar to dimorphothecas.
Origin
Modern Latin, from Greek dimorphos 'having two forms' + theca.