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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of various North American plants of the genera Rudbeckia, Ratibida, and Echinacea in the composite family, having disk flowers on a cone-shaped central receptacle surrounded by colorful ray flowers.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A name given to certain species of Rudbeckia, coarse composites with conical or columnar receptacles, especially to R. laciniata, which has a greenish-yellow oblong disk, and R. hirta, in which the conical disk is dark-brown.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Any of several similar but unrelated flowering plants, of the genera Dracopis, Echinacea, Rudbeckia and Ratibida, that have a cone-shaped disk of flowers

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Any plant of the genus Rudbeckia; -- so called from the cone-shaped disk of the flower head. They are cultivated for their large usually yellow daisies with prominent central cones. Also, any plant of the related genera Ratibida and Brauneria, the latter usually known as purple coneflower.
  2. n. any of various perennials of eastern US having thick rough leaves and long-stalked showy flowers with drooping rays and a conelike center.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a wildflower of the genus Ratibida
  2. n. any of various plants of the genus Rudbeckia cultivated for their large usually yellow daisies with prominent central cones
  3. n. any of various perennials of the eastern United States having thick rough leaves and long-stalked showy flowers with drooping rays and a conelike center

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  • treeseed any of several composite plants (as of the genera Echinacea and Ratibida) having cone-shaped flower disks Jan 24, 2008

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