different between echinacea vs cornflower

English

Etymology

From scientific Latin Echinacea, from Ancient Greek ?????? (ekhînos, “hedgehog”) (because of the soft "spines" in the centre of the flower) +? -acea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k??ne?s??/, /??k??ne????/, /??k??ne???/
• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /??k??ne?s??/, /??k??ne????/, /??k??ne???/

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???

Noun

echinacea (countable and uncountable, plural echinaceas)

1. (countable) Any of several plants, of genus Echinacea, having pinkish-purple flowers.
2. (uncountable) A herbal medicine extracted from the roots and seeds of such plants.

Hyponyms

• (plant of genus Echinacea): purple coneflower

Translations

See also

• coneflower

English

Etymology

corn +? flower

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?k??n?fla??/
• Homophone: cornflour

Noun

cornflower (plural cornflowers)

1. A small annual plant in the family Asteraceae, Centaurea cyanus, usually with bushy blue flowers which grows natively in European cornfields (i.e. wheatfields).
2. A plant of the species Cichorium intybus.
3. Cornflower blue.

Synonyms

• (Centaurea cyanus): bachelor's button, basket flower, bluebottle, boutonniere flower, hurtsickle
• (Cichorium intybus): common chicory, blue daisy, blue dandelion, blue sailor, blue weed, coffeeweed, chicory button, hendibeh, horseweed, ragged sailor, succory, wild bachelor's button, wild endive

Translations

Adjective

cornflower (not comparable)

1. Of a blue colour, as that of the cornflower; cornflower blue.

Derived terms

• cornflower blue

Translations

See also

• (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, cadet blue, Cambridge blue, cerulean, cobalt blue, Copenhagen blue, cornflower, cornflower blue, cyan, dark blue, Dodger blue, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric-blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, light blue, lovat, mazarine, midnight blue, navy, Nile blue, Oxford blue, peacock blue, petrol blue, powder blue, Prussian blue, robin's-egg blue, royal blue, sapphire, saxe blue, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre ^{(Category: en:Blues)}

Further reading

• cornflower on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Centaurea cyanus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Centaurea cyanus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• cornflower at USDA Plants database