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noun thistlelike Eurasian plant widely grown for its red or orange flower heads and seeds that yield a valuable oil
originFrom Middle French safleur; originally from Arabic أَصْفَر (ʔaṣfar, “yellow”) but influenced by safran (“saffron”) and fleur (“flower”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0