noun
California annual having flower heads with yellow rays tipped with white
• Syn: ↑tidy tips, ↑Layia platyglossa
• Hypernyms: ↑flower
• Member Holonyms: ↑Layia, ↑genus Layia
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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun plural but singular or plural in construction : an annual California herb (Layia platyglossa) having yellow-rayed flower heads often tipped with white
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/tuy"dee tips'/, n., pl. tidytips.
(used with a sing. or pl. v.) a composite plant, Layia platyglossa, of California, having flower heads with bright yellow, white-tipped rays.
[1885-90, Amer.; TIDY + TIP1 + -S3]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.