turnsole

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Etymology

French tournesol

Noun

turnsole (countable and uncountable, plural turnsoles)

  1. A heliotrope; so named because its flowers are supposed to turn toward the sun.
  2. A sunflower.
  3. A sun spurge (Euphorbia helioscopia).
  4. The euphorbiaceous plant Chrozophora tinctoria.
  5. A purple dye obtained from Chrozophora tinctoria.
    Synonym: folium
  6. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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