noun
genus of American plants widely cultivated for their flowers
• Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Compositae, ↑family Compositae, ↑Asteraceae, ↑family Asteraceae, ↑aster family
• Member Meronyms: ↑coreopsis, ↑tickseed, ↑tickweed, ↑tick-weed, ↑subgenus Calliopsis
Useful english dictionary. 2012.