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Callistephus

noun

one species: erect Asiatic herb with large flowers

• Syn: ↑genus Callistephus

• Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Compositae, ↑family Compositae, ↑Asteraceae, ↑family Asteraceae, ↑aster family

• Member Meronyms: ↑China aster, ↑Callistephus chinensis

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\\kəˈlistəfəs\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from calli- + Greek stephos crown, from stephein to encircle, bewreath

: a genus of erect Asiatic herbs (family Compositae) having ovate alternate leaves of which the upper become narrow and spatulate, leafy reflexed outer involucral bracts, and showy solitary flower heads that are two to five inches across — see china aster

Useful english dictionary. 2012.