Noun

(waterlilies)

* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 10, author=Benjamin Genocchio, title=Inside His Sketchbooks, Clues to Monet, work=New York Times citation

, passage=Even the beloved paintings of the slowly evolving garden and lily ponds at his home in Giverny might have started out as rudimentary pencil and crayon studies, as a comparison of a blackish green, purple and blue painting of waterlilies , on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art , with a black crayon study from the sketchbooks suggests. }}

Noun

Any plant of the genus Helianthus , so called probably from the form and color of its floral head, having the form of a large disk surrounded by yellow ray flowers

# The commonly cultivated species, Helianthus annuus , a native of America.

(colour) a bright yellow, like that of the flower petals.