GENUS COREOPSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Coreopsis mean? 

• GENUS COREOPSIS (noun)
  The noun GENUS COREOPSIS has 1 sense:

1. genus of American plants widely cultivated for their flowers

  Familiarity information: GENUS COREOPSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS COREOPSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of American plants widely cultivated for their flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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)