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turn·sole (tʉrn′sōl′)
noun
- any of a number of plants whose flowers supposedly turn with the sun, as the sunflower and heliotrope
- a Mediterranean plant (Chrozophora tinctoria) of the spurge family, yielding a purple or blue dye
- this dye
Etymology: ME turnesole < MFr tournesol < It tornasole or Sp tornasol < tornar(e), to turn + sol(e), sun: see Sol
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