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‖ helianthus Bot.|hiːlɪˈænθəs|
[mod.L., f. Gr. ῄλι-ος sun + ἄνθος flower.]
The botanical genus including the common sunflower (N.O. Compositæ); a plant of this genus.
1776Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxvi. 400 Jerusalem artichoke is also a species of Helianthus. 1804J. Grahame Sabbath (1839) 9/2 Like helianthus, borne on downy wings To distant realms. 1834M. Somerville Connect. Phys. Sc. xxvi. (1849) 294 The leaves of a single plant of helianthus three feet high exposed nearly forty feet of surface. 1851Mayne Reid Scalp Hunt. i. 10 Yonder is golden yellow, where the helianthus turns her dial-like face to the sun.
Hence heliˈanthic a., of or belonging to Helianthus, as in helianthic acid, obtained from sunflower seeds. heliˈanthin, an aniline dye of orange yellow colour. |