Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A North American annual plant (Coreopsis tinctoria) in the composite family, widely cultivated for its showy flower heads with yellow rays and purple-red to brownish centers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A former genus name of a group of plants of the family Asteraceæ, now referred to Coreopsis.
- noun [lowercase] A popular name of various cultivated species of Coreopsis, especially C. tinctoria (Calliopsis marmorata of florists) and C. lanceolata.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to
Coreopsis tinctoria of Arkansas.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun North American annual widely cultivated for its yellow flowers with purple-red to brownish centers; in some classifications placed in a subgenus Calliopsis
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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California poppies for oranges and yellows; sweet sultans for purples, whites, and pale yellows; petunias for purples, violets, and whites; larkspurs for blues and violets; bachelor's buttons (or cornflowers) for blues; calliopsis and coreopsis and calendulas for yellows; gaillardias for red-yellows and orange-reds; China asters for many colors.
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"Mother always says that gay flowers are the city person's greatest help in brightening up a dark room," said Della as she laid aside all the calliopsis from the flowers she was sorting.
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And we had banks of calliopsis and sunflowers -- the small sunflowers of Kansas, that bloom a hundred or more to a stalk -- and tall phlox whose fragrance carries one back to some far, forgotten childhood.
Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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Away at one end were the beds of old-fashioned flowers: hollyhocks and phlox and stocks, coreopsis and calliopsis, calendula and campanula, fox-gloves and monks-hoods and lady-slippers.
Days Off And Other Digressions Henry Van Dyke 1892
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