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Plural of sunflower

regular plural

The plural of sunflower is sunflowers.

Forms of sunflower

Singularsunflower /ˈsʌn.flaʊ.ə/
Pluralsunflowers /ˈsʌnˌflaʊ.ɚz/
Countablecountable

Sunflowers in a sentence

  • The flowers glowed red and golden: snapdragons and sunflowers, and nasturtians trailing all over the turf walls and peeping in at the round windows.1954 July 29, J.R.R. Tolkien, “I: A Long-Expected Party”, in The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings; 1), →ISBN
  • The low-beamed Bell Inn, believed to date from 1520, is locally renowned for its garden where giant sunflowers grow.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 214, about Halton Holegate
  • The sunflowers will catch the sun if they are planted there.From the entry catch the sun
  • She finds sunflowers to be too tall and gawky to be a "proper" garden flower !2021 March 16, @MarkK58, X, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2026. From the entry helianthophobia
  • Sunflowers grace most of the continental United States with a lush, vibrant beauty.1995, Bill Branon, “Melody”, in Devils Hole, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 45. From the entry ambrosia

Meaning of sunflower

  1. noun Any plant of the genus Helianthus, so called probably from the form and color of its floral head, having the form of a large disk surrounded by yellow ray flowers.
  2. noun The commonly cultivated species, Helianthus annuus, a native of America.
  3. noun A bright yellow, like that of the flower petals.

Full definition of sunflower

Questions about the plural of sunflower

What is the plural of sunflower?
The plural of sunflower is sunflowers.
Is sunflower countable?
Sunflower is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sunflower (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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