calliopsis

See also: Calliopsis

English

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Noun

calliopsis

1. A flower of the genus Coreopsis.
   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 80:

     Mario enjoying the smells of the calliopsis alongside the grounds' quincunx paths, the sweetish pines and the briers' yeasty musk […] .