cornflower
Americannoun
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cornflowers
plural
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Also called bachelor's-button, bluebottle. a European composite plant, Centaurea cyanus, growing in grainfields, having blue to white flower heads, often cultivated as an ornamental.
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Also called cornflower blue. a deep, vivid blue.
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Five minutes into the new Hulu documentary “Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna,” the film’s director, Rachel Mason, stands against the cornflower blue of the endless New Mexican sky.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2025
Of course, in the fashion world, an item of clothing can't just be blue, so Laws says he thinks cornflower and cobalt blue will make a particular appearance across shows.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2024
The bright blue cornflower, for instance, assembles a large complex of six anthocyanins and six copigments arranged like spokes on a wheel around four metal ions.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 14, 2023
With a frankly adorable Scottish accent and big cornflower blue eyes, she creates a character who is a total charmer.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2022
She’s standing in the yard in a cornflower blue dress hanging laundry on the line.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
Some of my favorites include violas, zinnias, rose petals, cornflowers and flowering herbs.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2022
Fresh flowers sometimes make an appearance — vibrant blue cornflowers, or purple and orange nasturtium blossoms — as do showers of crumbled dried herbs.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2019
Scientists got their first glimpse of the complexity behind blue flowers in 1913, when German researcher Richard Willstätter announced he had isolated the blue pigment from cornflowers.
From Science Magazine ● May 2, 2019
She made poppies out of paper for Remembrance Day while living in Africa, and sold the French equivalent of poppies, blue cornflowers, while living with her husband in France.
From BBC ● May 31, 2018
I'd forgotten to save any day clothes from the ones I let fly over New York, so Betsy had traded me a blouse and skirt for my bathrobe with the cornflowers on it.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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