Plant & Flower Names · Entry

Cosmos

Greek

“order, beauty”

Where it comes from

kosmos, 'order, ornament, the universe'

Fun Fact

Spanish priests in Mexico are said to have named the flower for the orderly arrangement of its petals, and the same Greek word also gave English 'cosmetic' and 'cosmos' for the universe.

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