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Webster 1913 Edition
Coreopsis
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Coˊre-op′sis
(kōˊrē̍-ŏp′sĭs)
, p
rop.
Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr.
κόρισ
bug + ὄψισ
appearance.] (Bot.)
A genus of herbaceous composite plants, having the achenes two-horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed.
Coreopsis tinctoria
, of the Western plains, the commonest plant of the genus, has been used in dyeing.