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MEXICAN SUNFLOWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mexican sunflower mean? 

MEXICAN SUNFLOWER (noun)
  The noun MEXICAN SUNFLOWER has 1 sense:

1. any plant of the genus Tithonia; tall coarse herbs or shrubs of Mexico to Panama having large flower heads resembling sunflowers with yellow disc florets and golden-yellow to orange-scarlet raysplay

  Familiarity information: MEXICAN SUNFLOWER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MEXICAN SUNFLOWER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any plant of the genus Tithonia; tall coarse herbs or shrubs of Mexico to Panama having large flower heads resembling sunflowers with yellow disc florets and golden-yellow to orange-scarlet rays

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Mexican sunflower; tithonia

Hypernyms ("Mexican sunflower" is a kind of...):

flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

Holonyms ("Mexican sunflower" is a member of...):

genus Tithonia (genus of robust herbs of Mexico and Central America: Mexican sunflower)


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