Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- n. a wildflower of the genus Ratibida
- n. any of various plants of the genus Rudbeckia cultivated for their large usually yellow daisies with prominent central cones
- 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
Examples
“The botanical name for coneflower is Echinacea, and I got a flower with the letter ‘E’.”
“Outhouse plant is sometimes called coneflower, but don't muddle it up with purple coneflower Echinacea.”
“Febrifuges such as coneflower, goldenseal, catnip, and hyssop had been tried, without effect.”
“We selected globe thistle, coneflower, and lavender.”
“‘Little Annie:’ The most exciting coneflower development in the last 10 years”
“Check out the coneflower experimental garden at Missouri Botanical Garden”
“In fact, the purple coneflower that is featured at the top of this blog is one of his images.”
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“One of the most stunning of the many new echinaceas is this mouth-water-inducing coneflower called 'Green Jewel'.”
“This little beauty was hybridized by Eric Stahlheber at Southernwood Gardens in Jonesboro, Ill. Eric is a lucky, lucky man, because I think this tiny coneflower is going to change the way a lot of us garden.”
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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