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: 矢車菊 (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, rüḿån 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

• Belarusian: вало́шкавы (valóškavy), васілько́вы (vasilʹkóvy)
• 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

bluesedit

• Alice blue
• aqua
• aquamarine
• azure
• baby blue
• beryl
• bice
• bice blue
• blueberry
• blue green
• blue violet
• 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
• sky blue
• slate blue
• teal
• turquoise
• ultramarine
• Wedgwood blue
• zaffre

Further reading

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