tickseed

8.6

A plant with bright yellow, daisy-like flowers that people grow in gardens

noun
/ˈtɪkˌsiːd/

: coreopsis

The garden was beautiful in the summer, with bright yellow tickseed flowers blooming everywhere.

Examples

It's girl's eye, or tickseed.

The Zone of Interest (2023)
Two kinds of arrowheads, dotted smartweed, lanceleaf primrose-willow, pickerelweed, and a tickseed are present in shallow depressions.

Academic text (2010)
Many pollinators, including butterflies, are attracted to the vibrant tickseed plants in our backyard.
In the spring, my mother always planted tickseed to enhance the color of her flower beds.

Synonyms

tick-weed

vstickseed

Specialized

9.9

A plant with bright yellow flowers like a daisy

is used mainly for cultivated garden varieties rather than wild origin

coreopsis

vstickseed

Specialized

9.9

A garden plant with bright yellow daisy-like flowers that attract butterflies

is the common ornamental name used for these garden plants

Compounds

tickseed sunflower

8.4

A plant with bright yellow daisy-like flowers that grows in wet places and meadows

Surface Forms

tickseed singular

tickseeds plural

Morphology

tickseed = tick + seed (semi-transparent) = tick + seed

The components 'tick' and 'seed' are clear and reflect the compound form, but the lexicalized plant name refers to a particular genus and floral sense that a learner might not infer from the parts alone.

Etymology

Tickseed is made of the simple parts tick and seed. A helpful way to remember it is that the plant's small seeds can cling to animals like a 'tick', and the name now refers to a bright, yellow, daisy-like garden flower.