sunflower

Other forms of sunflower

plural

sunflowers·

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.

Questions about sunflower

What does sunflower mean?

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

How many syllables are in sunflower?

sunflower has 3 syllables: sun-flo-wer. The stress falls on "sun". In IPA it is /ˈsʌnˌflaʊɚ/.

What is another word for sunflower?

Close synonyms include helianthus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sunflower a common word?

sunflower is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with sunflower?

10 words rhyme with sunflower. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.