| 1. | Also called bachelor's-button, bluebottle. a European composite plant, Centaurea cyanus, growing in grainfields, having blue to white flower heads, often cultivated as an ornamental. |
| 2. | Also called cornflower blue. a deep, vivid blue. |
| 3. | corn cockle. |
| 4. | strawflower (def. 2). |