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Calliopsis

Calliopsis \Cal`li*op"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. pref. kalli- (fr. kalo`s beautiful) + 'o`psis appearance.] (Bot.) A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to Coreopsis tinctoria of Arkansas.

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calliopsis

n. A flower of the genus ''Coreopsis''.

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calliopsis

n. North American annual widely cultivated for its yellow flowers with purple-red to brownish centers; in some classifications placed in a subgenus Calliopsis [syn: Coreopsis tinctoria]

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Calliopsis

Calliopsis is the generic name of two groups of organisms. It can refer to:

  • Calliopsis (plant), a former plant genus in the Asteraceae family
  • Calliopsis (bee), a genus of bees in the Andrenidae family

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The Enfield Tennis Academy occupies probably now the nicest site in En-field, some ten years after balding and shaving flat the top of the big abrupt hill that constitutes a kind of raised cyst on the township's elbow, the better part of 75 hectares of broad lawns and cloverleafing paths and topologically cutting-edge erections, 32 asphalt tennis courts and sixteen Har-Tru composition tennis courts and extensive underground maintenance and storage and athletic-training facilities and briers and calliopsis and pines mixed artfully in on the inclines with deciduous trees, the E.