cornflower

Meanings

Plural: cornflowers

Noun

• plant of southern and southeastern United States grown for its yellow flowers that can be dried
• an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers
• A small annual plant in the family Asteraceae, Centaurea cyanus, usually with bushy blue flowers which grows natively in European cornfields (i.e. wheatfields).
• A plant of the species Cichorium intybus.
• A color, cornflower blue.

Adj

• Synonym of cornflower blue, a shade of blue similar to that of the usual cornflower.

Synonyms

bachelor's button, basket flower, blue daisy, blue dandelion, blue sailor, blue weed, bluebottle, boutonniere flower, Centaurea cyanus, chicory button, coffeeweed, common chicory, cornflower blue, hendibeh, horseweed, hurtsickle, ragged sailor, strawflower, succory, Uvularia grandiflora, wild bachelor's button, wild endive

Related Words

Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, cadet blue, Cambridge blue, cerulean, cobalt blue, Copenhagen blue, cornflower blue, cyan, dark blue, Dodger blue, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, light blue, lovat, mazarine, midnight blue, navy, Nile blue, Oxford blue, peacock blue, petrol blue, powder blue, Prussian blue, robin's-egg blue, royal blue, sapphire, saxe blue, sky blue, slate blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre