What is "sunflower"

Sunflower \Sun"flow`er\, 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.

1560s, "heliotrope," from sun (n.) + flower (n.). In reference to the Helianthus (introduced to Europe 1510 from America by the Spaniards) it is attested from 1590s, so called from the appearance of the heads.

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. 3 (colour) a bright yellow, like that of the flower petals.

n. any plant of the genus Helianthus having large flower heads with dark disk florets and showy yellow rays [syn: helianthus]

Sunflower is the 16th studio album by American rock group The Beach Boys, released in August 1970, and their first on Reprise Records. The album was met with an enthusiastic critical reception which contrasted with unexpectedly poor sales, reaching only number 151 on US record charts during a four-week stay, and becoming the lowest charting Beach Boys album at that point. It was preceded by the similarly unsuccessful singles " Add Some Music to Your Day" and " Slip On Through"; later followed up with " Tears in the Morning" and " Forever". In the UK, the album performed better, peaking at number 29.

As the fifth consecutive album to give production credit to "the Beach Boys", it continued a pattern established in Friends (1968) with major songwriting contributions split between brothers Brian and Dennis Wilson. Bandmates Al Jardine, Carl Wilson, Bruce Johnston, and Mike Love also contributed to its writing. Its sessions begun in the midst of legal battles with Capitol Records in January 1969 and ended 19 months later — after the group signed with Reprise, who continuously rejected several variations of the album's track listing and contents. Eventually, the group presented the label with enough formidable material deemed satisfactory for release.

In 2003, Sunflower was voted 380 in Rolling Stone's " The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". In 1997, it was voted 66 in The Guardian's "100 Best Albums Ever".

Sunflower (Helianthus) is a genus of annual flowering plants native to North America

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In mathematics, a sunflower or Δ-system is a collection of sets whose pairwise intersection is constant, and called the kernel.

The Δ-lemma, sunflower lemma, and sunflower conjecture give various conditions that imply the existence of a large sunflower in a given collection of sets.

The original term for this concept was "Δ-system". More recently the term "sunflower", possibly introduced by , has been gradually replacing it.

Sunflower is a 1970 Italian drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It was the first western movie to be filmed in the USSR.

Sunflower is a 2005 Chinese film directed by Zhang Yang. Zhang's fourth film, Sunflower is a joint production of Ming Productions, the Beijing Film Studio (as part of the China Film Corporation's 4th Production Company) and the Hong Kong subsidiary of the Netherlands-based Fortissimo Films. It was distributed by Fortissimo Films and New Yorker Films (US theatrical distribution).

The film stars Sun Haiying and Joan Chen as a husband and wife, and the actors Zhang Fan, Gao Ge and Wang Haidi as their son over the course of 30 years.

Sunflower is a 2006 South Korean film.

"Sunflower" is a song written by Neil Diamond and recorded by American country music singer Glen Campbell. It was released in June 1977 as the second single from Campbell's 1977 album, Southern Nights. "Sunflower" was the last of eight number ones on the Easy Listening chart for Campbell. The single spent one week at number one and peaked at number thirty-nine on the Billboard Hot 100. "Sunflower" peaked at number four on the US country chart.

Sunflower is an album by vibraphonist Milt Jackson recorded in 1972 and released on the CTI label. Assisting Jackson are trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, a star-studded rhythm section composed chiefly of Miles Davis alumni, and, on the first track, string and woodwind accompaniment, courtesy of Don Sebesky.

Sunflower is the fifth studio album by American rock Never Shout Never. It was released on July 2, 2013 by Loveway Records. The album features the band recording as a whole for the third time; the first being in Time Travel, the second on Indigo.