SUNFLOWER


Meaning of SUNFLOWER in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

flower/sunflower/tomato etc seeds

I bought a packet of poppy seeds.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

oil

Fry in a little olive or sunflower oil until golden.

Even the stir-fry my wife sometimes does with sunflower oil is edible.

Gently cook in hot sunflower oil for 3-4 minutes.

In another pan, warm the sunflower oil .

seed

Then she ruffled the parakeet's crest and watched it peck a sunflower seed .

We chewed salted sunflower seeds , and slaked our thirst.

She washed clothes and dealt in smuggled electronic goods, rabbit-fur hats, sunflower seeds , pearl necklaces and noodles.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And that same electric veering-out for me reading the sunflower poem at age 18.

Below her the muttering sunflowers continued their ghostly and invisible movement.

He's planted fields full of sunflowers - the oil from the seeds will be made into margarine.

He says he was keen to try a new crop, and dwarf sunflowers ripen in time to harvest in late summer.

I had a beautiful, healthy sunflower .

In another pan, warm the sunflower oil.

Q: How can I save sunflower seeds to eat? &.

We chewed salted sunflower seeds, and slaked our thirst.

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