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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.
Group relationships: Genus Coreopsis
Specialized synonyms: Coreopsis Gigantea, Giant Coreopsis, Coreopsis Maritima, Sea Dahlia, Calliopsis, Coreopsis Tinctoria
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
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
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Coreopsis
1. [n COREOPSIS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coreopsis
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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