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n. Any plant, of the genus Helianthus, having large flower heads with dark disk florets and showy yellow rays; the sunflowers

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

n. A genus of plants, including the common sunflower, belonging to the natural order Compositæ, tribe Helianthoideæ, of which it is the type.

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

"She did not know that a helianthus was a sunflower till her mother told her, and she had never seen the dear, blue, bell-shaped flowers that always grow in old-fashioned gardens, and are called Canterbury bells."

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showy sunflower    jerusalem artichoke sunflower    helianthus laetiflorus    tall sunflower    helianthus maximilianii    prairie sunflower    helianthus tuberosus    helianthus angustifolius    maximilian's sunflower    mirasol   

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