turnsole
English
Alternative forms
- turnsol
- tournsol
Etymology
French tournesol
Noun
turnsole (countable and uncountable, plural turnsoles)
- The heliotrope; so named because its flowers are supposed to turn toward the sun.
- The sunflower.
- A kind of spurge (Euphorbia helioscopia).
- The euphorbiaceous plant Chrozophora tinctoria.
- A purple dye obtained from Chrozophora tinctoria.
- (chemistry, obsolete) litmus
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for turnsole in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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