Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

safflower

/ˈsæfˌlaʊə(ɹ)/ noun

Forms safflowers

Synonyms

From Middle French safleur; originally from Arabic أَصْفَر (ʔaṣfar, “yellow”) but influenced by safran (“saffron”) and fleur (“flower”).

noun An annual composite plant (Carthamus tinctorius), the flowers of which are used as a dyestuff and in making rouge; bastard, or false, saffron.
noun The died flowers of the Carthamus tinctorius.

Etymology [F. safeur, safior, for safran, influenced by fleur flower. See Saffron, and Flower.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “safflower”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “safflower” (best matches first).

शरट śaraṭa a lizard, chameleon; a safflower ( = kusumbha ).
कौसुम्भ kausumbha prepared with safflower; dyed with safflower, orange, red; ( as ), m. wild safflower.
रजन rajana name of a person with the patronymic Kauṇeya; a ray, beam; ( am ), n. colouring, dyeing; safflower.
कुसुम्भ kusumbha safflower, Carthamus Tinctorius; saffron, Crocus Sativus; the water-pot of the student and Sannyāsin; ( am )…
लट्व laṭva a horse; a particular caste; a dancing boy; a particular Rāga or scale in music; ( ā ), f. a kind of bird; s…
पीत pīta of a yellow colour, yellow (the colour of the Vaiśyas, white being that of the Brāhmans, red that of the Kṣa…
रक्त rakta coloured, dyed, painted, tinged, stained; reddened, red, crimson, of a red colour; nasalized; affected by pa…
रक्तसङ्कोच rakta-saṅkoca safflower.