Synonyms for sunflower
ˈsʌnˌflaʊ ərsun·flow·er

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1. sunflower, helianthusnoun

   any plant of the genus Helianthus having large flower heads with dark disk florets and showy yellow rays

   Synonyms:
   helianthus

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1. List of paraphrases for "sunflower":

   sunflowerseed

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1. Wandile Sihlobo:

   In the short term, between now and three months, the conflict will affect food supply primarily from a pricing perspective, as net importers of products like wheat, which influences bread and cereals, sunflower oil and maize, African countries are fairly exposed on some of these supplies that are coming out of Russia and Ukraine. There will be challenges if the war continues for more than three months — because ordinarily, countries usually keep stock of supplies for three to five months.

2. Julia Zumpano:

   If you don’t like olive oil, use walnut oil, i think peanut oil is fine, I think sunflower oil is fine – any of your polyunsaturated fatty acids.

3. Gianluca Ambrosetti:

   You would, of course, not have just one Sunflower but several so you can scale it up quite easily, hospitals, for instance, are quite energy intensive -- if you needed 1.2 mW to run a hospital you'd need 100 sunflowers.

4. Jay Cowin:

   Sunflower oil is unhealthy because it also contains high levels of Omega-6 fatty acids, these fatty acids can cause inflammation in the body, which can lead to health problems such as heart disease and cancer.

5. Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk:

   We as Ukraine clearly declare - in case Russia imposes a ban on deliveries of grain and (sunflower) oils from Russia to Turkey - that we will provide food security to Turkey.