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 sunflower ['sʌn`flaʊɚ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
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    sunflower
    [ noun ]
    any plant of the genus Helianthus having large flower heads with dark disk florets and showy yellow rays
    <noun.plant>


    Sunflower \Sun"flow`er\, n.
    Any plant of the genus {Helianthus}; -- so called probably
    from the form and color of its flower, which is large disk
    with yellow rays. The commonly cultivated sunflower is
    {Helianthus annuus}, a native of America.

    1. Most eat things like romaine lettuce and bananas, but the large milkweed bug prefers sunflower seeds and raw peanuts.
    2. The sunflower crop, to take a significant example, is worth a quarter of what it was five years ago.
    3. Ag Dynamics sells its sunflower seeds to about 40 nut companies, including Planters.
    4. A volunteer sunflower has sprung up amidst the peppers.
    5. Christie's International PLC said that it will auction off a sunflower painting by Vincent van Gogh in March, and that the work probably will fetch more than $11 million.
    6. More flexibility would be given to switch production to soybeans, sunflowers or oats, and export aid would be enhanced for cottonseeds and sunflower seeds.
    7. Ertug, for decades an advocate of measures to clean up air pollution in Turkey's large cities, said the party emblem will be a globe within a sunflower and a turtle on top of the globe.
    8. "Total Argentine oilseed area is expected to jump 16 percent to just under 9 million hectares, of which 7.7 million hectares are soybean and sunflower seed," the agency said in a recent outlook report.
    9. While impressionist art is adored by Japanese art collectors, the Van Gogh sunflower painting had special significance.
    10. Soybean and sunflower farmers would be eligible for assistance if they suffered losses above 45 percent, regardless of whether they purchased crop insurance.
    11. "We've lost so much production the last several years that we need a good healthy increase," said Larry Kleingartner, executive director of the sunflower association.
    12. The dogs respond with growls. Near Corlu a tractor-driver refused to take No for an answer, so I rode into town on his trailer-load of sunflower seeds, 'Oberj?'
    13. It will be 45% for soybean and sunflower growers, and 50% for producers of fruits, vegetables and other nonprogram crops.
    14. Improving the field-to-market organization has brightened the future for Kansas sunflower growers considerably.
    15. But at least they are acting now." In an effort to help cement their new relationship, the settlers' three-car convoy took coffee, cake and sunflower seeds to troops guarding the road overnight.
    16. Foreign oilseed production, including soybeans, sunflower seeds and rapeseeds, was projected at a record 152.5 million metric tons, up 5% from 1987.
    17. The Dutch experiment was undertaken because of questions about the health effects of changing the molecular geometry of food when processors hydrogenate soybean, peanut, sunflower and other vegetable oils.
    18. Chop finely the garlic, ginger and half the spring onions. Warm the sunflower oil in a small saucepan and cook the aromatics for 1 minute. Add the beans, soy sauce, sherry, sugar and half a pint of cold water.
    19. If you want a truly lean salad, make it with chopped egg instead of bacon bits or sunflower seeds, which have twice as much fat.
    20. "Feed prices are way up already with the dry weather," said Tom Westman, owner of several Minnesota Greenery Wild Bird Stores. `In just the last month we've seen a 25 percent increase in our costs on sunflower seeds.
    21. Traders said Iraq bought 110,000 metric tons of soybean meal, India bought 20,000 tons of sunflower oil and China is rumored to be interested in buying 25,000 tons of palm oil.
    22. The artist, who once wrote to his brother Theo, "the sunflower is mine in a way," painted seven sunflower pictures.
    23. The artist, who once wrote to his brother Theo, "the sunflower is mine in a way," painted seven sunflower pictures.
    24. According to an informal survey by the state Department of Agriculture, the total number of Kansas acres planted in sunflowers increased from about 60,000 acres in 1982 to about 200,000 in 1987. Farmers yield about 2,000 pounds of sunflower seeds an acre.
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