cornflower

cornflower
/kawrn"flow'euhr/, n.
1. Also called bachelor's-button, bluebottle. a European composite plant, Centaurea cyanus, growing in grainfields, having blue to white flower heads, often cultivated as an ornamental.
2. Also called cornflower blue. a deep, vivid blue.
3. See corn cockle.
4. strawflower (def. 2).
[1570-80; CORN1 + FLOWER]

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