Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thistlelike Eurasian plant (Carthamus tinctorius) in the composite family, having orange flowers that produce seeds containing an oil used for cooking and in food products, cosmetics, and paints.
- noun The dried flowers of this plant, formerly used as a source of yellow and orange dyes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A composite plant, Carthamus tinctorius; also, a drug and dyestuff consisting of its dried florets.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) An annual composite plant (
Carthamus tinctorius ), the flowers of which are used as a dyestuff and in making rouge; bastard, or false, saffron. - noun The dried flowers of the
Carthamus tinctorius . - noun A dyestuff from these flowers. See
Safranin (b). - noun a purgative oil expressed from the seeds of the safflower.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A cultivated thistle-like plant,
Carthamus tinctorius, familyAsteraceae , now grown mainly for its oil.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun thistlelike Eurasian plant widely grown for its red or orange flower heads and seeds that yield a valuable oil
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Their garments stained by safflower, which is yellow merde;
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She put divers herbs in it, herbs yielding coloured juices such as safflower and alkanet, and soapwort and fleawort to give consistency or 'body' to the lye; she put in alum and blue vitriol (or sulphate of copper), and she put in blood.
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'Fuel cocktail' to increase biodiesel yields by up to 24 percent WASHINGTON - Chemists at UC (University of California) Davis have developed a new process that enable oilseed crops such as safflower to be made into a fuel cocktail that could increase yields of biodiesel by up to 24 percent.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Ani 2010
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Yields of biodiesel from oilseed crops such as safflower could be increased by up to 24 percent using a new process developed by chemists at UC Davis.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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(Jack Kelly Clark/UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resource) (PhysOrg. com) -- Yields of biodiesel from oilseed crops such as safflower could be increased by up to 24 percent using a new process developed by chemists at UC Davis.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Potentially harmful polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons or PAHs for short, heterocyclic amines, and higher and mutagenic aldehydes, along with fine and ultrafine particles, have all been found in cooking fumes, using vegetable oils, such as safflower, soya bean, and rapeseed oils, as well as lard.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Yields of biodiesel from oilseed crops such as safflower could be increased by up to 24 percent using a new process developed by chemists at UC Davis.
D Mag - News 2010
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Washington, Feb 20: Chemists at UC (University of California) Davis have developed a new process that enable oilseed crops such as safflower to be made into a fuel cocktail that could increase yields of biodiesel by up to 24 percent.
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Yields of biodiesel from oilseed crops such as safflower could be increased by up to 24 percent using a new process developed by chemists at UC Davis.
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Washington, Feb 20: Chemists at UC (University of California) Davis have developed a new process that enable oilseed crops such as safflower to be made into a fuel cocktail that could increase yields of biodiesel by up to 24 percent.
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