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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunflower/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunflower/#x1)
- We measured the sunflower every week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunflower/#x2)
- Birds love sunflower seeds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunflower/#x3)
- Sunflower oil is used for cooking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunflower/#x4)
- Van Gogh painted famous pictures of sunflowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunflower/#x5)
- The sunflower's head is full of seeds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunflower/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/16/)
- [In July a Ukrainian field turns into a yellow sea of sunflowers taller than a grown-up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses/0/)
- [Young sunflowers turn to follow the sun across the sky, then swing back east at night.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses/2/)
- [Ukraine is one of the world's biggest sunflower growers and sells more sunflower oil than any other country.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses/8/)
- [The sunflower is Ukraine's national flower and became a symbol of support and hope around the world.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/25-ukraine-refugees-aid-sanctions-and-childrens-lives/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sunflower» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunflower/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.