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turn·sole (tʉrn′sōl′)

noun

  1. any of a number of plants whose flowers supposedly turn with the sun, as the sunflower and heliotrope
    1. a Mediterranean plant (Chrozophora tinctoria) of the spurge family, yielding a purple or blue dye
    2. this dye

Etymology: ME turnesole < MFr tournesol < It tornasole or Sp tornasol < tornar(e), to turn + sol(e), sun: see Sol

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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