Any plant of the genus Helianthus having large flower heads with dark disk florets and showy yellow rays.
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One was soon discovered nestling upon the blossom of a helianthus.
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Yonder is golden yellow, where the helianthus turns her dial-like face to the sun.
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The tall stalks of the helianthus bend and rise in long undulations, like billows on a golden sea.
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Peonies come up year after year, iris takes care of itself, helianthus or perennial sunflower bobs up each year.
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If it was a bee, we should find some of his companions roaming about among the blossoms of the helianthus.
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The sunflower, which was known to the ancients, was called in Greek, helianthos, from HELIOS, the sun; and ANTHOS a flower, and in Latin, helianthus.
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Seeds of Helianthus annuus and of two species of Ipomoea (those of 'I.
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Nature has many other curious vegetable contrivances for the dispersion of seeds: see note on Helianthus.
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Helianthus, I have mentioned, as suitable for backgrounds.
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The militia took the kilns on Pigsty Street, the stables of Helianthus Avenue, the arcades of Sunter.
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So we never met, though she wrote me much about herself and about "Helianthus," which was printed after her death.
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Helianthus annuus (Compositae).-Theupper part of the hypocotyl moved during the day-timein the course shown in the annexed figure (Fig.