| 单词 | turnsole |
| 释义 | turnsole /terrn"sohl'/, n. 1. any of several plants regarded as turning with the movement of the sun. 2. heliotrope (def. 2). 3. a European plant, Chrozophora tinctoria, of the spurge family, yielding a purple dye. 4. the purple dye prepared from this plant; litmus. [1325-75; ME turnesole < MF tournesol the dye < It tornasole the plant, lit., (it) turns (toward the) sun, on the model of Gk heliotrópion HELIOTROPE] |
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