An annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers.
Tropical American herb having rose to red or purple flowers that can be dried without losing color.
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Red hair, spilling past her waist, delicate skin and a cornflower-blue dress.
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The khaki of the British mingled with the cornflower blue of the French.
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The chintz had a cornflower design that repeated all these colors.
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He ducked his head round the door and his cornflower-blue gaze caught hers.
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Blond hair, fair skin, a pert nose, and cornflower blue eyes.
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The bluebottle comes to my apparatus, guided by scent rather than sight.
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The larvae of the bluebottle hatch within two days in the warm weather.
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Great swarms of bluebottle flies buzzed lazily in the warm sunshine.
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I next place in the cage a bluebottle, one only, to avoid confusion.
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Not even the presence of his bishop could make him spare a bluebottle.
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So instead of puny spring-sown cornflowers ( Centaurea cyanus) forced to hurtle swiftly into summer bloom, you get large robust plants as high as your chest.
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Sometimes called bachelor's button.
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The little yellow diurnal moth commonly known as "the wanderer" has a partiality for the nectar of the " bachelor's button," as yellow as itself.
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At least I couldn't find the Bachelor's Button, nor the London Pride, nor the Pansies, and I saw the Lavender-bush on the rubbish-heap.