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UK
/hˈɛliənθəs/
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NOUN
- any plant of the genus Helianthus having large flower heads with dark disk florets and showy yellow rays
How To Use helianthus In A Sentence
- It has previously been shown that adventitious organogenesis and embryogenesis could occur in parallel from in vitro-cultured tissues of Helianthus.
- The ground was enamelled with lilies, the helianthus and cineraria flourished, and the deep-green leaves and blue blossom of the lupin contrasted with the prickly stem and scarlet flower of the euphorbia. The Englishwoman in America
- The allogamy in the genus Helianthus is favoured by the particular mechanism of anthesis in which anthers shed pollen before the stigma of the same flower is ready to receive it.
- Tuck summer bloomers like purple verbena, yellow daisylike helianthus, purple coneflower, and coreopsis behind it.
- Common diseases of sunflowers (Helianthus annuus) such as downy mildew, septoria leaf spot, rust and sclerotinia wilt are regarded as potential problems. Chapter 20
- Keep working on late-season flowers such as rudbeckia, helianthus, heliopsis, helenium and dahlias. Times, Sunday Times
- The compounds are all isolated from Helianthus annuus L. firstly.
- The giant helianthus grown mostly for show here, is grown on the continent as a commercial crop.
- Tuck summer bloomers like purple verbena, yellow daisylike helianthus, purple coneflower, and coreopsis behind it.
- The sunchoke is the nonfibrous, plump tuber of a North American sunflower Helianthus tuberosus, whose traditional and obscure name is “Jerusalem artichoke.” On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen