sunflower seed
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- noun
- /ˈsʌnˌflaʊər siːd/
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- Aunt Pat likes to feed the birds sunflower seeds and peanuts.
You can make a peanut free spread with sunflower seeds.
- You can make a peanut free spread with sunflower seeds.
- They kind of just taste like a greener version of a sunflower seed.
- No, no, no baseball dude, sunflower seeds and chips, fresh seeds, and I'm sure eat candy and shit too.
- It has Mountain Dew, sunflower seeds, smelling sauce, and that's a little bit of wasabi, you know what I mean?
- And so these are oils that are chemically made in a factory from things like rapeseed, grapes, grapeseeds, safflower seeds, sunflower seeds.
Examples
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Combine the broccoli, red onion, cherry tomatoes, sunflower seeds, and golden raisins into a large bowl.
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Time to sprinkle in the sunflower seeds and also the spices.
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And we fill this up with black oil sunflower seeds and they just love it.
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How many sunflower seeds did they buy?
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"I found a bag of sunflower seeds in a drawer."
Fiction book (2000) -
Each morning I was to bring him sprouted sunflower seeds.
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From a rack of snack food, she chose a package of sunflower seeds.
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Ace nonchalantly sits back in a chair, pops a sunflower seed into his mouth, and cracks it loudly.
Fiction book (1994) -
Along with the starlings, thrushes, blackbirds, and tits, they are tucking into the sunflower seeds, lumps of fat, and half-rotten apples.
Fiction book (1994) -
My son and I have come out to scatter corn and sunflower seeds for the deer.
Synonyms
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Edible part inside a seed, grain, or nut
A small part of a plant that you can eat and use in cooking
How Oily
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the edible seed of a sunflower' is directly and compositionally derived from 'sunflower' (a plant with seeds) + 'seed' (a small plant part), so a B1 learner who knows both words will immediately infer the referent. This noun–noun compounding pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows transparent semantic composition, so the expression is easily comprehensible without prior exposure.
Etymology
Sunflower seed comes from the small seed found in the center of a big yellow sunflower. People and birds ate these seeds, and people learned to press them for 'oil' or eat them as a 'snack', so today sunflower seed means the edible seed used for 'snack' or 'oil'.