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sunflowery en · ADJ

Etymology

From sunflower + -y.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a sunflower.
   • 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:
   • c. 1877-1882, Algernon Charles Swinburne, letter 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.
   • It smelled sunflowery though, and when, during the initial application, some of it had dribbled into my mouth, its taste was not unpleasant. 2010, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, The Drastic Dragon of Draco, Texas:

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