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sunflowery

sunflowery adjective: resembling or characteristic of a sunflower.

Adjective

sunflowery (comparative more sunflowery, superlative most sunflowery)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a sunflower.
    • I am well into the second book or canto of your Tristram, containing the adventure illustrated by Morris on the walls of the Oxford Union in the sunflowery style which you may remember.c. 1877-1882, Algernon Charles Swinburne, letter
    • There is a way it seems to us to see sunflowers not just as some more shaped and colored things, but as what has a distinctively sunflowery look.1998, Charles Siewert, The Significance of Consciousness

Forms of sunflowery

comparativemore sunflowery
superlativemost sunflowery

Origin of sunflowery

From sunflower + -y.

Questions about sunflowery

What does sunflowery mean?
Sunflowery means resembling or characteristic of a sunflower.
What part of speech is sunflowery?
Sunflowery is an adjective.

Words near sunflowery in the dictionary

  1. sunflowered
  2. sunflowerlike
  3. sunflowers
  4. sunflowerseed
  5. sunflowerseeds
  6. sunflowery
  7. sunfringed
  8. sunfrock
  9. sunfrocks
  10. sunfruit
  11. sung

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