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plural safflowers
A cultivated thistle-like plant, Carthamus tinctorius, family Asteraceae, now grown mainly for its oil. quotations examples
Safflower is unusual: if you add alkalis to the dye broth it is yellow; with acids it goes a beautiful crimson pink which is the colour of the original ‘red’ tape once tied around legal documents in England […] .
2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, page 195