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sunflower

[ UK /sˈʌnfla‍ʊɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈsənˌfɫaʊɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. any plant of the genus Helianthus having large flower heads with dark disk florets and showy yellow rays

How To Use sunflower In A Sentence

  • Deposits at Salts Cave dating between 650 and 250 B.C. included sunflower, sumpweed, squash, goosefoot, and maygrass.
  • Try poppies, cornflowers, stocks, love-in-a-mist, cosmos, mignonette, larkspur, honesty, ox-eye daisies, marigolds, phlox, sunflowers, zinnias - whatever takes your fancy.
  • Among the flowers most commonly represented are roses, lilies, fleurs-de-lis, and sunflowers.
  • To top it all, hers is bright sunflower yellow. Times, Sunday Times
  • The organisers are hoping that families, schools, groups and businesses will plant thousands of sunflowers. Times, Sunday Times
  • But a long way from endless fields of sunflowers and locals arguing charmingly about porcini. Times, Sunday Times
  • In both the 1901 and the 1888 works, the sunflowers are displayed on the seat of a chair, as if they had the status of a human sitting for a portrait.
  • I frequently use sunflowers as symbols of strength.
  • But this past year has been an especially punishing one for the country, with a drought over the summer leading to an exceptionally meagre yield of wheat, maize, sunflowers, soybeans and sugar-beet - all key crops.
  • Crown gall strains caused by Agrobacterium tumefaciens S-1 702, C-58 have been established from sunflower hypocotyls, tobacco stems and stem pithes, carrot roots and potato tubers.
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