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Any plant of the genus Helianthus having large flower heads with dark disk florets and showy yellow rays
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sunflower
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Sunflower is a 1970 Italian drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica . It was the first western movie to be filmed in the USSR .
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n. 1 Any plant of the genus ''Helianthus'', so called probably from the form and color of its floral head, having the form of a large disk surrounded by yellow ray flowers 2 # The commonly cultivated species, ''Helianthus annuus'', a native of America. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES flower/sunflower/tomato etc seeds ▪ I bought a packet of poppy seeds. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN oil ▪ Fry in a little olive or sunflower oil until golden. ▪ Even the stir-fry my wife sometimes does with sunflower ...
Usage examples of sunflower.
Foods like asparagus, artichokes, Brussels sprouts, black-eyed peas, and sunflower seeds contain folate.
Before Cece became society editor and long before she became my source for historical Sunflower County facts, Cece was Cecil.
Sunflower, ere it comes to expand and show its golden face, being dressed as an artichoke, and eaten as a dainty.
The width of the circle beneath the dome is three hundred feet, the height of the dome is four hundred feet, and the length of the rays is one hundred and fifty feet, and the height of their roofs three hundred feet, so that they run into the central dome exactly as the petals of the sunflower run into the great raised heart.
What makes the whole effect even more gorgeous is that a belt of a hundred and fifty feet around the marble wall of the temple is planted with an indigenous species of sunflower, which were at the time when we first saw them a sheet of golden bloom.
I like: Azalea, basil, bean, corn, daffodil, fuchsia, freesia, grape, ginger, holly, hibiscus, parsley, poppy, sage, sunflower and rhododendron.
A mixed bouquet of bright autumn colorszinnias and gerbera daisies and dahlias and one late sunflower splash.
The house itself had a nice little garden, gay with geraniums and gladiolus, and bounded by a hedge of sunflowers which would have gladdened the heart of an aesthete.
The Hindmost brought us to this doomed structure against our wills, and you delay our vengeance to kill sunflowers.
Everything was as it should be: the strong smell of sunflowers and ironweed in the dew, the clear blue and gold of the sky, the evening star, the purr of the milk into the pails, the grunts and squeals of the pigs fighting over their supper.
Elsa rose, dazzling as a sunflower in her kaftan, her strings of amber beads, bronzed arms chinking with bangles.
Amid a meadow of data structures, Kapur picked out another sunflower, the characteristic Godel shape.
She walked hurriedly up the garden path, between the blooming puce rhododendrons, flowering puce gladioli, glorious puce sunflowers and spreading puce spruce trees and looking left and right and up and down as well, slipped behind the trellis work that hid the two puce dustbins and the garden shed, all painted puce.
Sunflower left the tipi to gain permission from her husband for Merry and Christina to stay with them.
Hers is dingy indigo and sulphur, with lurid smoky-green tonguelets like the petals of a sunflower.