CALLIOPSIS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

North American annual widely cultivated for its yellow flowers with purple-red to brownish centers; in some classifications placed in a subgenus Calliopsis

Synonyms:

calliopsis; Coreopsis tinctoria

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("calliopsis" 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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