sunflower

«sunflower» in Mova's school dictionary: A very tall plant with a large flower that has a brown… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a sunflower, sunflowers)

meaning for a pupil

A very tall plant with a large flower that has a brown centre and yellow petals. Its seeds can be eaten or made into oil. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons, pupils grow sunflowers and measure how tall they get each week, a good activity for graphs. Young sunflowers turn their heads to follow the sun. Sunflower seeds are food for people and birds. Phrases: sunflower seeds, sunflower oil, grow a sunflower.

examples

• Our sunflower grew taller than my dad. tree →
• We measured the sunflower every week. tree →
• Birds love sunflower seeds. tree →
• Sunflower oil is used for cooking. tree →
• Van Gogh painted famous pictures of sunflowers. tree →
• The sunflower's head is full of seeds. tree →

note

Countable: a sunflower, sunflowers. One word. Myth: grown-up sunflowers do not keep turning all day; mostly young plants follow the sun, and old flowers usually face east. In maths, the sunflower's height over time makes a good line graph.

In the corpora

• Rapeseed and sunflowers make seeds that are pressed into cooking oil, and the yellow rapeseed fields are busy with bees in spring.
• In July a Ukrainian field turns into a yellow sea of sunflowers taller than a grown-up.
• Young sunflowers turn to follow the sun across the sky, then swing back east at night.
• Ukraine is one of the world's biggest sunflower growers and sells more sunflower oil than any other country.
• The sunflower is Ukraine's national flower and became a symbol of support and hope around the world.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «sunflower» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.