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GENUS COREOPSIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of American plants widely cultivated for their flowers
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Coreopsis" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Coreopsis"):
coreopsis; tick-weed; tickseed; tickweed (any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods; North and South America)
subgenus Calliopsis (used in some classification systems for some plants of genus Coreopsis)
Holonyms ("genus Coreopsis" is a member of...):
aster family; Asteraceae; Compositae; family Asteraceae; family Compositae (plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia)
