sunflower

sunflower

English

a sunflower - Helianthus annuus

Etymology

From sun +‎ flower. Compare English sunbloom.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌnˌflaʊ.ɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌnˌflaʊə/

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• Hyphenation: sun‧flow‧er

Noun

sunflower (plural sunflowers)

1. Any plant of the genus Helianthus, so called probably from the form and color of its floral head, having the form of a large disk surrounded by yellow ray flowers.
   • 1954 July 29, J.R.R. Tolkien, “I: A Long-Expected Party”, in The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings; 1), →ISBN:

     The flowers glowed red and golden: snapdragons and sunflowers, and nasturtians trailing all over the turf walls and peeping in at the round windows.

   1. The commonly cultivated species, Helianthus annuus, a native of America.
2. A bright yellow, like that of the flower petals.

   sunflower:  

3. (informal, organic chemistry) Any flat, radially symmetric organic compound such as coronene

Synonyms

• sunbloom
• turnsole

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Sunflower County
• sunflowered
• sunflowerlike
• sunflower oil
• sunflowery
• The Sunflower State

Related terms

• sunchoke

Translations

flower

Afrikaans: sonneblom Albanian: lule dielli f, lulediell Arabic: زَهْرَة اَلشَّمْس‎ f (zahrat aš-šams), دَوَّار اَلشَّمْس‎ m (dawwār aš-šams) Armenian: արևածաղիկ (hy) (arewacałik) Asturian: mirasol (ast) m, xirasol (ast) m Azerbaijani: günəbaxan (az) Bashkir: көнбағыш (könbağış), (colloqial) симешкә (simeşkä) Basque: ekilore (eu) Belarusian: слане́чнік m (slanjéčnik) Bengali: সূর্যমুখী (sūrĵômukhī) Bikol Central: mirasol (bcl) Breton: tro-heol (br) m Bulgarian: слънчоглед m (slǎnčogled) Burmese: နေကြာ (my) (ne-kra) Catalan: gira-sol (ca) m, mira-sol m Cherokee: Ꮕ⁠Ꮣ⁠Ꮧ⁠Ꭷ⁠Ꮒ (nv⁠da⁠di⁠ka⁠ni) Chinese: Mandarin: 向日葵 (zh) (xiàngrìkuí), 日頭花／日头花 (zh) (rìtóuhuā), 葵花 (zh) (kuíhuā) Min Nan: 日頭花 (zh-min-nan), 日头花 (ji̍t-thâu-hoe; li̍t-thâu-hoe) Cornish: howlvleujen f Crimean Tatar: künaylan Czech: slunečnice (cs) f Danish: solsikke (da) c Dutch: zonnebloem (nl) f Dzongkha: ཉིམ་གང་ཤར (nyim gang shar) Esperanto: sunfloro Estonian: päevalill Faroese: sólblóma f Finnish: auringonkukka (fi) French: tournesol (fr) m Galician: mirasol (gl) m, xirasol (gl) m Georgian: მზესუმზირა (mzesumzira) German: Sonnenblume (de) f Greek: ηλιοτρόπιο (el) n (iliotrópio) Greenlandic: solsikke Gujarati: સૂર્યમુખી (sūryamukhī) Hebrew: חמנית‎ (he) (chammanit) Hindi: सूर्यमुखी (hi) f (sūryamukhī), सूरजमुखी (hi) f (sūrajmukhī) Hungarian: napraforgó (hu) Icelandic: sólblóm (is) n Ido: sunfloro (io) Indonesian: bunga matahari Ingush: гидуарг (gidwarg) Irish: lus na gréine Italian: girasole (it) m Japanese: 向日葵 (ja) (ひまわり, himawari) Kalmyk: нарн цецг (narn tsetsg) Kannada: ಸೂರ್ಯಕಾಂತಿ (kn) (sūryakānti) Kazakh: күнбағар (künbağar), күнбағыс (kk) (künbağys) Khmer: ឈូករតន៍ (cʰuuk roatta), ផ្កាឈូករ័ត្ន (phkaachuukrŏətnɔɔ) Korean: 해바라기 (ko) (haebaragi) Lakota: waȟčázi Lao: ດອກຕາເວັນ (lo) (dǭk tā wen), ดอกทานตะวัน (ดอกทานตะวัน) Latvian: saulespuķe Lithuanian: saulėgrąža Macedonian: со́нчоглед m (sónčogled) Malagasy: tanamasoandro (mg) Malay: bunga matahari, kembang matahari Malayalam: സൂര്യകാന്തി (ml) (sūryakānti) Manx: lus ny greiney Marathi: सूर्यफूल (sūryaphūl) Mongolian: наранцэцэг (naranceceg) Nahuatl: chīmalxōchitl (nah) Navajo: ndíyíliitsoh, nidíyílii Nepali: सूर्यमुखी (sūryamukhī) Norman: tournésol m Northern Sami: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: solsikke (no) n Ottoman Turkish: گون چیچكی‎ (gün çiçeği), دوه طبانی‎ (deve tabani) Pashto: کاپر ګل‎ m (kapər gul), لمر ګل‎ f (lemər gul), مېر ګل‎ f (meyr gul) Persian: آفتاب‌گردان‎ (âftâb-gardân) Piedmontese: virassol m Plautdietsch: Sonnenbloom f Polish: słonecznik (pl) m Portuguese: girassol (pt) m, helianto (pt) m, heliotrópio (pt) m, tornassol m Punjabi: ਸੂਰਜਮੁਖੀ (sūrjamukhī) Romanian: floarea soarelui f Russian: подсо́лнечник (ru) m (podsólnečnik), подсо́лнух (ru) m (podsólnux) Sanskrit: सूर्यमुखी (sa) f (sūryamukhī) Scottish Gaelic: neòinean-grèine m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: сунцокрет m, сунцоглед m Roman: suncokret (sh) m, suncogled m Sinhalese: සූරියකාන්ත (sūriyakānta) Slovak: slnečnica f Slovene: sončnica (sl) f Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: słyńca f Spanish: girasol (es) m, maravilla (es) f, tornasol m, mirasol m Swahili: alizeti (sw) Swedish: solros (sv) c Tagalog: mirasol, hirasol Tamil: சூரியகாந்தி (ta) (cūriyakānti) Telugu: పొద్దుతిరుగుడు (te) (poddutiruguḍu) Thai: ดอกทานตะวัน Turkish: ayçiçeği (tr), gündöndü (tr), günebakan (tr) Ukrainian: со́няшник m (sónjašnyk), со́нях m (sónjax) Urdu: سوریہ مکھی‎ f (sūrya-mukhī), سورج مکھی‎ (ur) f (sūraj-mukhī) Uyghur: ئاپتاپپەرەس‎ (aptapperes) Uzbek: kungaboqar (uz) Vietnamese: hướng dương (vi) (向陽), hướng dương quỳ tử (向陽葵子), thiên quỳ tử (天葵子) Welsh: blodyn haul Yiddish: זונרויז‎ (zunroyz)

colour

Finnish: kirkkaan oranssi Hungarian: napraforgósárga Ido: sunflorea Russian: ора́нжевый (ru) (oránževyj) Ukrainian: жо̀втогаря́чий (uk) (žòvtoharjáčyj)

See also

• blueweed
• girasol
• helianthus
• Jerusalem artichoke
• moonflower
• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

• sunflower on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Helianthus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Helianthus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• sunflower at USDA Plants database
• sunflower at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.

Anagrams

• unflowers