cornflower

noun

1. A small annual plant in the family Asteraceae, Centaurea cyanus, usually with bushy blue flowers which grows natively in European cornfields (i.e. wheatfields).
2. A plant of the species Cichorium intybus.
3. A color, cornflower blue.

adj

1. (not-comparable)Synonym of cornflower blue, a shade of blue similar to that of the usual cornflower.