cornflower

English

Etymology

From corn +‎ flower.

Centaurea cyanus

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɹnˌflaʊ.ɚ/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: cornflour

Noun

cornflower (plural cornflowers)

1. A small annual plant in the family Asteraceae, Centaurea cyanus, usually with bushy blue flowers which grows natively in European cornfields (i.e. wheatfields).
2. A plant of the species Cichorium intybus.
3. A color, cornflower blue.

Synonyms

• (Centaurea cyanus): bachelor's button, basket flower, bluebottle, boutonniere flower, hurtsickle
• (Cichorium intybus): common chicory, blue daisy, blue dandelion, blue sailor, blue weed, coffeeweed, chicory button, hendibeh, horseweed, ragged sailor, succory, wild bachelor's button, wild endive

Translations

Centaurea cyanus

Armenian: տերեփուկ կապույտ (terepʻuk kapuyt) Basque: nabar-lore Belarusian: вало́шка f (valóška), васілёк m (vasiljók) Bulgarian: метличина f (metličina) Catalan: blavet m Chinese: Mandarin: 矢車菊 / 矢车菊 (zh) (shǐchējú) Czech: chrpa (cs) f Danish: kornblomst (da) c Dutch: korenbloem (nl) f, echte korenbloem f, blauwbol m, bol (nl) m Esperanto: cejano Estonian: rukkilill (et) Faroese: kornblóma f Finnish: ruiskaunokki (fi), ruiskukka (fi) French: bleuet (fr) m, centaurée bleuet, aubifoin (fr) m (dated) German: Kornblume (de) f Hunsrik: Kornblumm f Ido: aciano (io) Ingrian: ruiskukka Irish: coirce gorm m, gormán m Italian: fiordaliso (it) m Japanese: 矢車菊 (yagurumagiku) Korean: 수레국화 (suregukhwa) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: kanêje (ku) f Latvian: rudzupuķe (lv) f Lithuanian: vosilka Luxembourgish: Karblumm f Macedonian: си́нчец m (sínčec) Norman: aubefein m Polabian: blovĕ kjot m, rüḿån m Polish: bławatek (pl) m, chaber (pl) m Portuguese: centáurea (pt) f, escovinha f, marianinha f Romanian: albăstrea (ro) f Romansch: centaura da graun f Russian: василёк (ru) m (vasiljók) Scots: blaver Slovak: nevädza (sk) f Slovene: modri glavinec m, plavica (sl) f, modriš m Spanish: azulejo (es) m, aciano (es) m Swedish: blåklint (sv) c, kornblomster c Turkish: mavi kantaron (tr) Ukrainian: воло́шка f (volóška) Vietnamese: thanh cúc Vilamovian: bławatki m Welsh: glas yr ŷd m

colour

Dutch: korenbloemblauw (nl) n Ido: acianeakoloro Polish: bławatkowy (pl), chabrowy (pl) Swedish: kornblå (sv)

Adjective

cornflower (not comparable)

1. Synonym of cornflower blue, a shade of blue similar to that of the usual cornflower.

Derived terms

• cornflower blue

See also

bluesedit

• Alice blue
• aqua
• aquamarine
• azure
• baby blue
• beryl
• bice
• bice blue
• blueberry
• blue green
• blue violet
• cadet blue
• Cambridge blue
• cerulean
• cobalt blue
• Copenhagen blue
• cornflower
• cornflower blue
• cyan
• dark blue
• Dodger blue
• duck-egg blue
• eggshell blue
• electric blue
• gentian blue
• ice blue
• lapis lazuli
• light blue
• lovat
• mazarine
• midnight blue
• navy
• Nile blue
• Oxford blue
• peacock blue
• petrol blue
• powder blue
• Prussian blue
• robin's-egg blue
• royal blue
• sapphire
• saxe blue
• sky blue
• slate blue
• teal
• turquoise
• ultramarine
• Wedgwood blue
• zaffre

Further reading

• cornflower on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Centaurea cyanus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Centaurea cyanus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• cornflower at USDA Plants database