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cornflower

US/ˈkɔɹnˌflaʊ.ɚ/
nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,372 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: cornflowers

A cornflower is a bright blue wild flower of the fields. Cornflower blue, a field of cornflowers, dried cornflowers.

It grew as a weed in cornfields, which is where the name comes from, and it nearly vanished from Britain when herbicides arrived. Cornflower blue is a named shade, and it is the flower on many war memorials in France.

Orikrin1998 · CC BY 3.0

Definitions of cornflower

  1. 1nouncornflowerA bright blue wild flower of the fields.C1

    “Red poppies and blue cornflowers grew among the wheat.”

cornflower is a flower.

Where it comes from

Corn plus flower, from its growing as a weed among the corn.

From corn + flower. cornflour.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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cornflower in the wild

  • The most valuable blue sapphires are called cornflower blue, having a medium-dark violet-blue hue.

    Cornflower blue

  • The pigment was first isolated in 1913 from the blue cornflower (Centaurea cyanus), and the identical pigment was isolated from a red rose in 1915.

    Protocyanin

  • Brunonia australis, commonly known as the blue pincushion or native cornflower, is a perennial or annual herb that grows widely across Australia.

    Brunonia

  • Centaurea depressa, the low cornflower, is a species of Centaurea.

    Centaurea depressa

  • Psephellus dealbatus, the Persian cornflower or whitewash cornflower, is a species of Psephellus native to the Caucasus Mountains and Turkey.

    Psephellus dealbatus

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