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Meanings of cornflower in English
An annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers.
Plant of southern and southeastern United States grown for its yellow flowers that can be dried.
Synonyms
Examples for "bluebottle"
Examples for "bluebottle"
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The bluebottle comes to my apparatus, guided by scent rather than sight.
2
The larvae of the bluebottle hatch within two days in the warm weather.
3
Great swarms of bluebottle flies buzzed lazily in the warm sunshine.
4
I next place in the cage a bluebottle, one only, to avoid confusion.
5
Not even the presence of his bishop could make him spare a bluebottle.
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Sometimes called bachelor's button.
2
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.
3
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.
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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.
Usage of cornflower in English
1
Red hair, spilling past her waist, delicate skin and a cornflower-blue dress.
2
The khaki of the British mingled with the cornflower blue of the French.
3
The chintz had a cornflower design that repeated all these colors.
4
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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They opened their eyes, cornflower blue that coalesced, like running ink, into black.
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The sky was a clear cornflower blue and the air smelled of new hay.
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They were such a clear, light blue-likethe cornflower crayon from the 64-Crayolabox.
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For instance, I decorated a room in soft cream, gray, yellow and cornflower blue.
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I have mentioned some already for your garden:-Canterburybell, cornflower and foxglove are biennials.
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In studio Gay Byrne is a vision in cornflower cashmere.
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His eyes were cornflower blue; I'd never noticed that before.
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She wears a cornflower-blue dress and a string of pearls.
14
Julie leans against the cornflower plaster and closes one eye.
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Appealing crinkles fanning out from a pair of cornflower-blue eyes.
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There had been a child, too, with golden skin and her mother's cornflower eyes.
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Cornflower through the time
Cornflower across language varieties
United States of America
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