helianthus

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noun any plant of the genus Helianthus having large flower heads with dark disk florets and showy yellow rays

From the genus name. Compare helio- (“sun”), antho- (“flower”).

Broad fields, covered with flowers of every hue--thickets of blooming rose-trees--belts of the yellow helianthus--and groups of cocoa-trees and half-wild plantains, formed a picture singular and beautiful. — The Rifle Rangers, Mayne Reid

sunflower

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