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coreopsis

  (kôr'ē-ŏp'sĭs, kŏr-) pronunciation
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Any of various plants of the genus Coreopsis in the composite family, especially the North American species, having showy radiate flower heads with yellow or, rarely, purplish flowers. Also called tickseed.

[New Latin Coreopsis, genus name : Greek koris, bedbug + –OPSIS.]


 
 
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: coreopsis

Any ornamental summer-blooming plant of the genus Coreopsis, commonly known as tickseed, in the composite family, consisting of about 100 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants native to North America. Members have flower heads with yellow disk flowers and yellow, pink, white, or variegated ray flowers. The heads are solitary or in branched clusters, and some varieties have double flowers. Golden coreopsis (C. tinctoria) is a popular garden plant; swamp tickseed (C. rosea) is grown in wildflower gardens.

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Columbia Encyclopedia: coreopsis
(kōrēŏp'sĭs) , or tickseed, names for species of Coreopsis, a chiefly North American genus of the family Asteraceae (aster family). They are easily cultivated annuals or perennials with daisylike heads of flowers in various colors—commonly yellow or variegated. Garden kinds are sometimes called calliopsis. Coreopsis is classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Asterales, family Asteraceae.

 
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Meaning #1: any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods; North and South America
  Synonyms: tickseed, tickweed

 
 

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