[
UK
/sˈʌnflaʊɐ/
]
[ US /ˈsənˌfɫaʊɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈsənˌfɫaʊɝ/ ]
NOUN
- 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.