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: ヤグルマギク (yagurumagiku), 矢車菊 (やぐるまぎく, 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
• 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

• (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, 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, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre ^{(Category: en:Blues)}

Further reading

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