coreopsis tinctoria

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

   Synonymscalliopsis

   Broadercoreopsis

Questions about coreopsis tinctoria

What does coreopsis tinctoria mean?

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

What is another word for coreopsis tinctoria?

Close synonyms include calliopsis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coreopsis tinctoria a common word?

coreopsis tinctoria is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.