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Coreopsis
| coreopsis gigantea
| coreopsis maritima
| coreopsis tinctoria
| coreplasty
| corer
Coreopsis
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Coreopsis has 1 sense
- coreopsis(n = noun.plant) tick-weed, tickseed, tickweed - any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods; North and South America; Array is a member of genus coreopsis
has particulars: coreopsis gigantea, giant coreopsis, coreopsis maritima, sea dahlia, calliopsis, coreopsis tinctoria
is a kind of herb, herbaceous plant
CIDE DICTIONARY
Coreopsis, prop. n. [NL., fr. Gr. ko`ris bug + 'o`psis appearance.].
A genus of herbaceous composite plants, having the achenes two-horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed. Coreopsis tinctoria , of the Western plains, the commonest plant of the genus, has been used in dyeing. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Coreopsis, n. any composite plant of the genus Coreopsis, having rayed usu. yellow flowers.
Etymology
mod.L f. Gk koris bug + opsis appearance, with ref. to the shape of the seed
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