cal·li·op·sis

(kăl′ē-ŏp′sĭs)

A North American annual plant (Coreopsis tinctoria) in the composite family, widely cultivated for its showy flower heads with yellow rays and purple-red to brownish centers.

[New Latin : Greek kalli-, beautiful (from kallos, beauty) + Greek opsis, appearance; see -opsis.]

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calliopsis

(ˌkælɪˈɒpsɪs)

(Plants) another name for coreopsis

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Noun

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

Coreopsis tinctoria

coreopsis, tickseed, tickweed, tick-weed - 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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However, they have registered some species that were not recorded in the present study, i.e., Dardanus insignis (De Saussure, 1858), Paguristes erythrops Holthuis, 1959, Pagurus criniticornis, and Pseudopaguristes calliopsis (Forest & De Saint Laurent, 1968).

Composition, density, and shell use of hermit crabs (Crustacea: Paguroidea) from subtidal boulder fields in southeastern Brazil

Br., Selleophytum Urb., y Clado C (Bidens L., Coreocarpus Benth., Coreopsis secciones Calliopsis (Rchb.) Nutt., Coreopsis, Eublepharis Nutt, Gyrophyllum Nutt.

Numeros cromosomicos para tres especies de Cosmos seccion Discopoda (Asteraceae, Coreopsideae), con notas citogeograficas/Chromosomic numbers for three species of Cosmos section Discopoda (Asteraceae, Coreopsideae), with cytogeographic notes

3 Calliopsini * Calliopsis (Calliopsima) rozeni Shinn * Calliopsis Sphaeralcea sp.

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