cornflower

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

Related Words

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