sunflower

[ suhn-flou-er ]

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noun

any of various composite plants of the genus Helianthus, as H. annuus, having showy, yellow-rayed flower heads often 12 inches (30 centimeters) wide, and edible seeds that yield an oil with a wide variety of uses: the state flower of Kansas.
Also called as·ter [as, -ter]. Furniture. a conventionalized flower motif carved in the center panels of a Connecticut chest.

sunflower

/ ˈsʌnˌflaʊə /

any of several American plants of the genus Helianthus, esp H. annuus, having very tall thick stems, large flower heads with yellow rays, and seeds used as food, esp for poultry: family Asteraceae (composites) See also Jerusalem artichoke
sunflower seed oil
the oil extracted from sunflower seeds, used as a salad oil, in the manufacture of margarine, etc

First recorded in 1555–65; translation of Latin flōs sōlis “flower of the sun”

Alexey, one of the refugees camping in Sviatohirsk, owns a sunflower seed warehouse in Sloviansk.

You can also use sunflower oil or ghee, which is essentially clarified butter.

Brewer's veto comes a week after the Kansas State Senate rejected a similar bill in the Sunflower State.

Last year, Sprouts bought Sunflower Farmers Market, a 37-store chain.

Balanced on top of the wagon were a sunflower plant and a stack of photos.

Wolff has illustrated this point by a series of experiments on the sunflower, of which we shall quote one.

Saussure made similar experiments, and observed that the quantity of water exhaled by a sunflower amounted to about 220 lb.

Delicate, refined, perfectly poised, and Kitty beside her like a sunflower to a sprig of heliotrope!

And at last he found a fine seat on a tall sunflower, from which he could view every move that was made.

The chief produce of these tracts of unmixed sand is the sunflower, often the dense and almost exclusive occupant.

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