Sunflower
['sʌnflaʊə] or ['sʌnflaʊɚ]
Definition
(noun.) any plant of the genus Helianthus having large flower heads with dark disk florets and showy yellow rays.
Editor: Sasha--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Any plant of the genus Helianthus; -- so called probably from the form and color of its flower, which is large disk with yellow rays. The commonly cultivated sunflower is Helianthus annuus, a native of America.
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Examples
- Miss Sedley was not of the sunflower sort; and I say it is out of the rules of all proportion to draw a violet of the size of a double dahlia. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- All these waterways are of about the same nature so far as navigation is concerned, until the Sunflower is reached; this affords free navigation. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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