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COREOPSIS TINCTORIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Coreopsis tinctoria mean?
• COREOPSIS TINCTORIA (noun)
The noun COREOPSIS TINCTORIA has 1 sense:
1. North American annual widely cultivated for its yellow flowers with purple-red to brownish centers; in some classifications placed in a subgenus Calliopsis
Familiarity information: COREOPSIS TINCTORIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
North American annual widely cultivated for its yellow flowers with purple-red to brownish centers; in some classifications placed in a subgenus Calliopsis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
calliopsis; Coreopsis tinctoria
Hypernyms ("Coreopsis tinctoria" is a kind of...):
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)
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