| 词汇 | sunflower |
| 词源 | sunflower. Sunflowers are so named because they resemble the full sun, not because they follow the direction of the sun during the day. Helianthus actually turns in every direction whether the sun is out or not. The word sunflower was coined toward the middle of the 17th century. |
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