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SUNFLOWER SEED
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Edible seed of sunflowers; used as food and poultry feed and as a source of oil
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("sunflower seed" is a kind of...):
edible seed (many are used as seasoning)
Meronyms (substance of "sunflower seed"):
sunflower-seed oil; sunflower oil (oil from sunflower seeds)
Holonyms ("sunflower seed" is a part of...):
common sunflower; Helianthus annuus; mirasol (annual sunflower grown for silage and for its seeds which are a source of oil; common throughout United States and much of North America)
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