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say it: SA-flow-ur
safflower is a noun meaning "thistlelike Eurasian plant widely grown for its red or orange flower heads and seeds that yield a valuable oil". It carries one recorded sense.
thistlelike Eurasian plant widely grown for its red or orange flower heads and seeds that yield a valuable oil
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for safflower come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.