Definition of Mexican sunflower

1. Noun. Any plant of the genus Tithonia; tall coarse herbs or shrubs of Mexico to Panama having large flower heads resembling sunflowers with yellow disc florets and golden-yellow to orange-scarlet rays.

Exact synonyms: Tithonia
Generic synonyms: Flower
Group relationships: Genus Tithonia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mexican Sunflower

Mexican husk tomato
Mexican hyssop
Mexican jumping bean
Mexican jumping beans
Mexican juniper
Mexican mint
Mexican monetary unit
Mexican nut pine
Mexican onyx
Mexican overdrive
Mexican peso
Mexican plateau
Mexican pocket mouse
Mexican poppy
Mexican standoff
Mexican sunflower
Mexican swamp cypress
Mexican tea
Mexican tulip poppy
Mexican valium
Mexican wave
Mexican waves
Mexican wolf
Mexicanism
Mexicanization
Mexicanizations
Mexicanize
Mexicanized
Mexicanizes
Mexicanizing

Literary usage of Mexican sunflower

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catskills Alive! by Francine Silverman (2003)
"What deer really like to eat are hollyhocks, impatiens, mexican sunflower, crocus, daylily, hosta, cardinal flower, phlox, rose, and tulip. ..."

2. Agriculture in the Tropics: An Elementary Treatise by John Christopher Willis (1914)
"All these various phenomena, the appearance of a new weed, like the Mexican sunflower in Ceylon, the appearance of a new disease, or the springing up of a ..."

3. Plant Inventory by Agricultural Research Center-West (U.S.), United States Division of Botany, Horticultural Crops Research Branch, Agricultural Research Service, United States Dept. of Agriculture, United States, United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Northeastern Regi (1917)
"A mexican sunflower, growing to a height of about 5 feet, with ar stem and rather coarse lobed leaves, which are very susceptible '• tacks by aphids. ..."

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