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Definition of Cosmos
1. Noun. Everything that exists anywhere. "The biggest tree in existence"
Generic synonyms: Natural Object
Member holonyms: Extragalactic Nebula, Galaxy
Terms within: Celestial Body, Heavenly Body, Estraterrestrial Body, Extraterrestrial Object
Specialized synonyms: Closed Universe, Natural Order, Nature
Derivative terms: Cosmic, Cosmic, Macrocosmic, Universal
2. Noun. Any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus Cosmos having radiate heads of variously colored flowers and pinnate leaves; popular fall-blooming annuals.
Definition of Cosmos
1. n. The universe or universality of created things; -- so called from the order and harmony displayed in it.
2. n. A genus of composite plants closely related to Bidens, usually with very showy flowers, some with yellow, others with red, scarlet, purple, white, or lilac rays. They are natives of the warmer parts of America, and many species are cultivated. Cosmos bipinnatus and C. diversifolius are among the best-known species; C. caudatus, of the West Indies, is widely naturalized.
Definition of Cosmos
1. Noun. The universe ¹
2. Noun. An ordered, harmonious whole ¹
3. Noun. Any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus ''Cosmos'' having radiate heads of variously coloured flowers and pinnate leaves ¹
4. Noun. (plural of cosmo) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cosmos
1. the universe regarded as an orderly system [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cosmos
Literary usage of Cosmos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"The genus is distinguished from Bidens chiefly by the seeds, which are beaked in
cosmos but not distinctly so in Bidens, and by the color of the rays, ..."
2. The Basis of Durable Peace by Nicholas Murray Butler (1917)
"APPENDIX I. HALL CAINE TO cosmos H. cosmos TO HALL CAINE m. HALL CAINE TO cosmos IV.
cosmos TO HIS CRITICS V. THE ARTICLES OF cosmos ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1893)
""By the Tiber, as by the Ganges, ethical man admits that the cosmos is too strong
for him ; and, destroying every bond which ties him to it by ascetic ..."
4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"cosmos (from the Greek word with a root idea of orderliness; hence an ornament
or beautiful ... At first cosmos flowers were only an inch or two across. ..."
5. Practical Dental Metallurgy: A Text and Reference Book for Students and by Joseph Dupuy Hodgen (1896)
"As a Filling Material, Sigel Roush, Dental cosmos, Vol. XXXVI, p. ... As a Restorer
in Extensive Loss of Coronal Surface, WB Sherman, Dental cosmos, Vol. ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"This atheistic theory of evolution is ineffectual to account for the first
beginning of the cosmos or for the law of its evolution, since it acknowledges ..."
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