any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus Cosmos having radiate heads of variously colored flowers and pinnate leaves; popular fall-blooming annuals
The theory or description of the universe, as a system displaying order and harmony
The cosmos is the universe. the natural laws of the cosmos. the cosmos the whole universe, especially when you think of it as a system. Any of the garden plants that make up the genus Cosmos (composite family), containing about 20 species native to the tropical New World. Heads of flowers are borne along long flower stalks or together in an open cluster. The disk flowers are red or yellow; the ray flowers, sometimes notched, may be white, pink, red, purple, or other colors. Most annual ornamental varieties have been developed from the common garden cosmos (C. bipinnatus)
A genus of composite plants closely related to Bidens, usually with very showy flowers, some with yellow, others with red, scarlet, purple, white, or lilac rays
Greek for "order, regularity " The cosmos is the created world of order, stability, and relative permanence, as opposed to the impermanence and disorder of chaos