Usually means: Blue flower, symbolizes delicacy, grace.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word cornflower:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. cornflower: Merriam-Webster
  2. cornflower: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cornflower: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cornflower: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cornflower: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cornflower, cornflower: Wordnik
  7. cornflower: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cornflower: Wiktionary
  9. cornflower: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cornflower: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cornflower: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cornflower, cornflower: Dictionary.com
  13. Cornflower (disambiguation), Cornflower: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Cornflower: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. cornflower: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. cornflower: Rhymezone
  17. Cornflower: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. cornflower: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. cornflower: FreeDictionary.org
  20. cornflower: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. cornflower: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. cornflower: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. cornflower: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cornflower: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cornflower: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)
  2. Cornflower: Dictionary of Horticultural Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cornflower: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  A small annual plant in the family Asteraceae, Centaurea cyanus, usually with bushy blue flowers which grows natively in European cornfields (i.e. wheatfields).
▸ noun:  A plant of the species Cichorium intybus.
▸ noun:  A color, cornflower blue.
▸ adjective:  Synonym of cornflower blue, a shade of blue similar to that of the usual cornflower.

Similar:
strawflower, bluebottle, Centaurea cyanus, uvularia grandiflora, blue bonnet, bluet, crowflower, centaury, blawort, cone flower, more...

Types:
cornflower blue, cornflower purple, cornflower pink, cornflower white, more...

Phrases:
cornflower blue, cornflower aster, cornflower blues, more...

Adjectives:
blue, purple, common, perennial, loveliest, prettiest, sapphire, single, golden, annual

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Similar:
strawflower, bluebottle, Centaurea cyanus, uvularia grandiflora, blue bonnet, bluet, crowflower, centaury, blawort, cone flower, more...

Types:
cornflower blue, cornflower purple, cornflower pink, cornflower white, more...

Phrases:
cornflower blue, cornflower aster, cornflower blues, more...

Adjectives:
blue, purple, common, perennial, loveliest, prettiest, sapphire, single, golden, annual



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