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UK
/kˈɔːnflaʊɐ/
]
[ US /ˈkɔɹnˌfɫaʊɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈkɔɹnˌfɫaʊɝ/ ]
NOUN
- 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
How To Use cornflower In A Sentence
- Try poppies, cornflowers, stocks, love-in-a-mist, cosmos, mignonette, larkspur, honesty, ox-eye daisies, marigolds, phlox, sunflowers, zinnias - whatever takes your fancy.
- Rare arable flowers such as shepherd's needle, the cornflower and marigolds thrive in the fallow land, encouraging insects as food for birds.
- That one does not say of a cornflower that it looks blue is a linguistic point, not a psychological one.
- And some of them, such as poppies, cornflowers and corncockles are exquisitely beautiful as well.
- If you have a little cover, you can plant sweet pea seed, or if you prefer to sow direct into the ground why not try some beautiful blue cornflowers?
- High on my popularity list are calendula (pot marigolds), clarkia, cornflowers, larkspur, love-in-a-mist, godetia, sweet peas and sunflowers. The Sun
- Outside the villages, the fields and mountainsides are awash with jasmine, wild lupins, broom, poppies, cornflowers and white wistaria, leading the eye to gentle slopes cloaked in velvety green grass and pockets of dark green forest.
- Decorated in cornflower blue and white, this features a striking granite fireplace with marble inset and, like most of the ground floor accommodation, is floored in Junkers timber.
- Houseproud John and Maggie Briggs filled the wrought-iron hayracks with trailing geraniums, busy Lizzies, wild cornflowers, lobelia and pansies.
- Hydrangeas, celosia, yarrow, baby's breath, rose buds, and cornflowers also dry well and make gorgeous decorations.
