sunflower

English

a sunflower - Helianthus annuus

Etymology

From sun +‎ flower. Compare English sunbloom.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌn.flaʊ.ɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌn.flaʊ.ə/

• Audio (Southern England)

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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.
4. (pathology) Synonym of worm-star
5. (UK, rail transport) An Automatic Warning System (AWS) indicator in the driver's cab that is displayed after a driver has acknowledged an audible warning, which consists of a yellow circle enclosing a white circle, with black spokes overlaid.

Synonyms

• sunbloom
• turnsole

Derived terms

• beach sunflower
• bush sunflower
• Maximilian sunflower
• Mexican sunflower
• paradox sunflower
• red sunflower
• sunflower beetle
• sunflower bread
• Sunflower County
• sunflowered
• sunflowerlike
• sunflower moth
• sunflower oil
• sunflower sea star
• sunflower seed
• sunflower star
• 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) (arewacaġik)
• Asturian: mirasol (ast) m, xirasol (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: günəbaxan (az)
• Bashkir: көнбағыш (könbağış), (colloquial) симешкә (simeşkə)
• Basque: ekilore (eu)
• Belarusian: слане́чнік m (slanjéčnik)
• Bengali: সূর্যমুখী (bn) (śurjomukhi)
• 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:

  Hokkien: 日頭花／日头花 (zh-min-nan) (ji̍t-thâu-hoe; li̍t-thâu-hoe)

  Mandarin: 向日葵 (zh) (xiàngrìkuí), 日頭花／日头花 (zh) (rìtóuhuā), 葵花 (zh) (kuíhuā)

• 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)
• Hawaiian: nānālā
• 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 (künbağys)
• Khmer: ឈូករតន៍ (cʰuuk roatta), ផ្កាឈូករ័ត្ន (phkaachuukrŏətnɔɔ), ឈូករ័ត្ន (km) (chuuk rŏət)
• Korean: 해바라기 (ko) (haebaragi)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: gulberroj (ku) f

• Lakota: waȟčázi
• Lao: ດອກຕາເວັນ (lo) (dǭk tā wen), 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), सूर्यकमळी f (sūryakamḷī)
• 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 (hu)
• 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