Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A North American annual plant (Coreopsis tinctoria) widely cultivated for its showy flower heads with yellow rays and purple-red to brownish centers.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A former genus name of a group of plants of the family Asteraceæ, now referred to Coreopsis.
- n. [lowercase] A popular name of various cultivated species of Coreopsis, especially C. tinctoria (Calliopsis marmorata of florists) and C. lanceolata.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to Coreopsis tinctoria of Arkansas.
WordNet 3.0
- n. North American annual widely cultivated for its yellow flowers with purple-red to brownish centers; in some classifications placed in a subgenus Calliopsis
Etymologies
- New Latin : Greek kalli-, beautiful (from kallos, beauty) + Greek opsis, appearance; see -opsis.
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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