Grand Turk

English

A view of the southwestern beach at Grand Turk, next to the cruise ship dock

From a species of cactus on the island, the Turk's Cap Cactus (Melocactus intortus), which has a distinctive cap reminiscent of an Ottoman fez.

Grand Turk

short for Grand Turk Island, the largest island in the Turks and Caicos Islands
historic title
- 1868, Edward Isidore Sears (ed.), The National Quarterly Review, volume 16, page 404:
  Because they are styled "the executive," "executive officers," &c., by their Jenkinses, and are declared by the same authorities to possess unbounded knowledge, and transcendent "executive ability," they sometimes fancy themselves the Czar, the Shah, or the Grand Turk […]

an island in the Turks and Caicos Islands