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cornflower
Alternative clues for the word cornflower
- Bloomer made by rake going round wearing buttonhole
- Plant of southern and southeastern United States grown for its yellow flowers that can be dried
- An annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers
- Common composite bloom
- Ornamental plant
- Scented foot-growth?
Word definitions for cornflower in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cornflower \Corn"flow`er\ (k[^o]rn"flou`[~e]r), n. (Bot.) A conspicuous wild flower ( Centaurea Cyanus ), growing in grainfields.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. plant of southern and southeastern United States grown for its yellow flowers that can be dried [syn: strawflower , Uvularia grandiflora ] an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A cornflower appears to be blue, and it is blue. ▪ A dried cornflower ... How on earth did all this rubbish get into the file? ▪ Beyond the hedges the cornfields were thick with poppies and edged with cornflowers. ▪ For dry skin ...
Usage examples of cornflower.
Still, the poppy and cornflower chintz was cheerful, and the vase of pearly-white honesty seedcases looked very well against the peach-coloured wall.
Her waifish eyes, heavily made up and almost comically long-lashed, were as blue as Spica, Alacrity thought, while Floyt compared them to cornflowers.
She looked at the street names: Bryn Mawr Way, Appaloosa Street, Cornflower Road.
His eyes were the palest of cornflower blue, yet without being weak and watery as those of most albinos.
It was a perfect day, the kind of summer's day that a child might remember for ever, a day when the sun shone from a burnished sky and spilt light on the poppies and cornflowers that were spread so lavishly in the ripening wheat.
It faded, carried eastwards by a breeze from the far Atlantic, and the plains of Leon were left empty except for the hovering hawks, the lizards, and the poppies and cornflowers that smeared colour on a bleached land.
Insects were busy in the grass and wheat, butterflies flickered above the poppies and cornflowers, and the last ragged clouds of the rainstorm died and disappeared.
I struggled into my white bathrobe with the blue cornflowers on it and staggered down to the bathroom.
A little to the left of the shoe I saw a vague heap of blue cornflowers on a white ground and this made me want to cry.
The big, tow-headed youngster in the middle actually turned full-face to the two on the ground, flashed them a dismayed stare from eyes as blue as cornflowers, and rode with his chin on his shoulder until both his fellows elbowed him back to caution and his duty.
The eyes, now conning Cadfael rather warily over the rim of the cup, were as radiantly blue as Cadfael remembered them from Saint Giles, like cornflowers in a wheat-field.
It was a perfect day, the kind of summer’s day that a child might remember for ever, a day when the sun shone from a burnished sky and spilt light on the poppies and cornflowers that were spread so lavishly in the ripening wheat.
Her eyes were her most striking feature, widely set, widely opened and the deepish blue of a cornflower.
My mother was there, and Alswith, arranging cornflowers and roses around the piece of wood that was, when looked at in a certain way, Urdo lying still with closed eyes.
Fat, fair, with cornflower blue, rather closely set eyes, huge chubby cheeks, and the general aspect of a cabbage rose, she resembled no person that Penelope had ever known.