Definition of Coreopsis

1. Noun. Any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods; North and South America.


Definition of Coreopsis

1. n. 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.

Definition of Coreopsis

1. Noun. (botany) Any of several composite herbs, of genus ''Coreopsis'', typically with bright yellow flowers. ¹

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Definition of Coreopsis

1. [n COREOPSIS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coreopsis

corelated
corelates
corelating
coreless
corelet
corelets
coreligionist
coreligionists
corella
corellas
corelysis
coremia
coremium
coreoplasty
coreopses
coreopsis (current term)
coreopsises
corepexy
corepraxy
corepresentation
corepresentations
corepression
corepressor
corepressors
corequisite
corequisites
corer
corers
cores
coresearcher

Literary usage of Coreopsis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed by John Sims (1819)
"We received the specimens from which our drawing was taken of this handsome species of coreopsis from N. HOD- SON, Esq. of Bury St. Edmunds. ..."

2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1898)
"coreopsis major Walt. Wood, or Greater Tickseed. (Fig. 3929.) coreopsis major Walt. Fl. Car. 214. ... Virginia and West Virginia to Georgia. 2 6. coreopsis ..."

3. Popular Flowers, and how to Cultivate Them by Edward Sprague Rand (1876)
"No annual is better known than the golden coreopsis, and, though botanists now tell us the plant is not a coreopsis, but a calliopsis, we may be sure, ..."

4. Seventy-five Popular Flowers, and how to Cultivate Them by Edward Sprague Rand (1870)
"No annual is better known than the golden coreopsis, and, though botanists now tell us the plant is not a coreopsis, but a calliopsis, we may be sure, ..."

5. A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings by John Lubbock (1892)
"coreopsis auriculata, L. (fig. 462). Achene obovate, winged, wings nearly entire or oftener more or ... coreopsis auriculata. A, longitudinal section of ..."

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