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1. (n.) coreopsis
any composite plant of the genus Coreopsis, including varieties with ray flowers of yellow, brown, or yellow and red.
Etymology: (1745–55; < NL, =kore-, taken as s. of Gk kóris bedbug +-opsis -opsis ; so named from the shape of seed)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) coreopsis, tickseed, tickweed, tick-weed
any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods; North and South America
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) Coreopsis
a genus of herbaceous composite plants, having the achenes two-horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed. C. tinctoria, of the Western plains, the commonest plant of the genus, has been used in dyeing
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U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. Coreopsis
A plant genus of the family ASTERACEAE that contains phenyl propanoids.
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