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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Coreopsis \Co`re*op"sis\ (k?`r?-?p"s?s), n. [NL., fr Gr ???? bug + ??? appearance.] (Bot.) A genus of herbaceous composite plants, having the achenes two-horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed. {C. tinctoria}, of the Western plains, the commonest plant of the genus, has been used in dyeing. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: coreopsis n : any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods; North and South America [syn: {tickseed}, {tickweed}]
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