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Definition of Sunflower seed
1. Noun. Edible seed of sunflowers; used as food and poultry feed and as a source of oil.
Generic synonyms: Edible Seed
Group relationships: Common Sunflower, Helianthus Annuus, Mirasol
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sunflower Seed
Literary usage of Sunflower seed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"No experiments in feeding sunflower seed to stock have been published by any of our
... By the reports received, so far as sunflower seed has been fed by ..."
2. Linseed Oil and Other Seed Oils: An Industrial Manual by William Duane Ennis (1909)
"Composition of sunflower seed.—Mustard oil.—Copra.—The copra industry.—Cocoanut-oil
products.—Preparation of copra.—Rape oil.—Production of seed. Tia' cake. ..."
3. A Practical Treatise on Animal and Vegetable Fats and Oils: Comprising Both by William Theodore Brannt, Karl Schaedler (1896)
"... Fusing point of the fatty acids 73-4° F. Congealing point of the fatty acids
62.6° F. Adulterations of sunflower-seed oil are thus far unknown. ..."
4. The Industries of Russia by Russia Ministerstvo finansov, John Martin Crawford, World's Columbian Exposition (1893)
"However, not the whole crop of sunflower seed is brought to the mills to be worked
into ... The number of oil mills working sunflower seed amounts to 109, ..."
5. First Studies of Plant Life by George Francis Atkinson (1901)
"The sunflower seed. The sunflower seed can be split open to remove the seed coat
in the same way as the pumpkin seed. The meat occupies much the same ..."
6. Feeds and Feeding: A Hand-book for the Student and Stockman by William Arnon Henry (1910)
"sunflower seed cake, Helianthus annuus.—The sunflower is grown in Russia on a
commercial scale, one variety with small seeds producing an oil which serves ..."
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