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Definition of Sunflowers
1. sunflower [n] - See also: sunflower
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sunflowers
Literary usage of Sunflowers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1911)
"As the result of six years of study, he has worked out a system of classification
of the perennial sunflowers, based upon the underground parts of the ..."
2. Archeological Explorations in Northeastern Arizona by Alfred Vincent Kidder, Samuel James Guernsey (1919)
"The deposit consists of a wooden bird, 21 yellow and 5 white wooden sunflowers,
2 leather sunflowers, and 25 wooden cones. ..."
3. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). (1893)
"WITH perennial sunflowers, as with many other strictly garden genera, ...
sunflowers are very old garden-plants—they have been grown in our gardens for ..."
4. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1907)
"XIII. JOLIET, ILL., OCTOBER, 1907. No. 2 OUR PRAIRIE sunflowers. BY WILLARD N.
CLUTE. ... The sunflowers were the original fire-worshippers. ..."
5. The New McGuffey First Reader by William Holmes McGuffey (1901)
"... all the sunflowers I can find. I like roses and sweet violets. I like to see
big, yellow sunflowers, too; but I do not care to take them home with me. ..."
6. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1903)
"XXII CLOVER BLOSSOMS AND sunflowers HOW d' ye do, girls?" said Huldah Me- serve,
peeping in at the door. " Can you stop studying a minute and show me your ..."
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