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Definition of Genus Coreopsis
1. Noun. Genus of American plants widely cultivated for their flowers.
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Coreopsis, Tick-weed, Tickseed, Tickweed, Subgenus Calliopsis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Coreopsis
Literary usage of Genus Coreopsis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pittonia by Edward Lee Greene (1901)
"... proposed a new genus Coreopsis, mono- typical with him, then, and represented
by the Bidens suc- ..."
2. The Ladies' Flower-garden of Ornamental Annuals. by Loudon (Jane) (1842)
"The plants contained in this genus have been separated from those retained in
the genus Coreopsis, on account of the palea of the receptacle heing in the ..."
3. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"... several of which were, and indeed still are, referred by some authorities to
the genus Coreopsis. They are usually free from hairs, the leaves opposite, ..."
4. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"1 is Plate 139. a seedling; 2, a ray-floret; 3, a disk-floret; 4, the fruit,
natural size and enlarged. COREOPSIS Natural Order COMPOSITE. genus Coreopsis ..."
5. Henderson's Handbook of Plants and General Horticulture by Peter Henderson (1904)
"... Mitella in general appearance and is well suited for the rock-work or herbaceous
border. Tick Seed. The genus Coreopsis. Tick Trefoil. See Desmodium. ..."
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