Definition of Coreopsis tinctoria

1. Noun. North American annual widely cultivated for its yellow flowers with purple-red to brownish centers; in some classifications placed in a subgenus Calliopsis.

Exact synonyms: Calliopsis
Generic synonyms: Coreopsis, Tick-weed, Tickseed, Tickweed

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coreopsis Tinctoria

Cordylidae
Cordyline
Cordyline australis
Cordyline terminalis
Cordylobia
Cordylobia anthropophaga
Cordylus
Corea
Coregonidae
Coregonus
Coregonus artedi
Coregonus clupeaformis
Coreidae
Coreopsis gigantea
Coreopsis maritima
Coreopsis tinctoria
Corey
Corfiot
Corfu
Corgard
Cori
Cori's disease
Cori cycle
Cori ester
Coriandrum
Coriandrum sativum
Coricidin
Corina
Corinna
Corinne

Literary usage of Coreopsis tinctoria

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

1. The Flower Garden, Or, Breck's Book of Flowers: In which are Described All by Joseph Breck (1858)
"This is a well- known hardy annual, formerly called coreopsis tinctoria. ... This variety of the well known and much admired coreopsis tinctoria, ..."

2. The British Flower Garden: Containing Coloured Figures & Descriptions of the by Robert Sweet, Edwin Dalton Smith (1825)
"COREOPSIS tinctoria. Dyeing or Arkansa Coreopsis. Natural Order. ... Coreopsis tinctoria. Nut tall in the Journal of the Academy of Natural Science of ..."

3. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Joseph Paxton (1836)
"coreopsis tinctoria atrosanguinea. Coreopsis sanguinea. THIS new and beautiful annual makes equally as fine a show on the borders as the C. bicolor. ..."

4. The Encyclopædia of Geography: Comprising a Complete Description of the by Hugh Murray, William Wallace, Robert Jameson, William Jackson Hooker, William Swainson, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1837)
"On crossing the Rocky Mountain*, however, where unwooded districts for the most part still prevail, bulbous plante are much more coreopsis tinctoria. ..."

5. A Handbook for Planning and Planting Small Home Grounds: With a List of by Warren Henry Manning (1899)
"Calliopsis or Coreopsis (coreopsis tinctoria), 374. Carolina Allspice or Sweet-scented Shrub ... Coreopsis or Calliopsis (coreopsis tinctoria), 374. ..."

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