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- noun Plural form of
sunflower .
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Examples
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So they would have to have these creatures, which I call sunflowers, which I imagine living on the surface of Europa, would have to have either lenses or mirrors to concentrate sunlight, so they could keep themselves warm on the surface.
Freeman Dyson says: let's look for life in the outer solar system 2003
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So they would have to have these creatures, which I call sunflowers, which I imagine living on the surface of Europa, would have to have either lenses or mirrors to concentrate sunlight, so they could keep themselves warm on the surface.
Freeman Dyson says: let's look for life in the outer solar system 2003
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So they would have to have these creatures, which I call sunflowers, which I imagine living on the surface of Europa, would have to have either lenses or mirrors to concentrate sunlight, so they could keep themselves warm on the surface.
Freeman Dyson says: let's look for life in the outer solar system 2003
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Much as I dislike the odious double-chinned oik, Guido's photo captioned "New LibDem frontbench team", with the small girls surrounded by fake sunflowers, is genuinely amusing.
Yellow Peril 2006
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When I attend a recent hunt, Labry explains that he plants 35 acres in sunflowers, and then, two weeks before the opener, runs a combine through them, leaving narrow rows for the 40 or more hunters on his guest list to hide in.
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Yesterday we learned from Lisa Marie Presley herself, by way of a blogpost on her official My Space profile, that it is her wish to see her late ex-husband Michael Jackson‘s tomb (which she found painfully bare of flowers recently) covered in sunflowers (MJ‘s favorite flower).
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The sunflowers were a nice touch and provided lots of color and interest that some of the other corn maze pumpkin patch places lack.
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Pavarotti's white, maple casket was covered in sunflowers, which is his favorite.
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So really the sunflowers are our closest relative folks.
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The sunflowers are the brainchild of Kouyuu Abe, a Zen monk who owns a temple just outside Fukushima city and is committed to the "fight against radiation".
The Guardian World News Jonathan Watts 2011
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