Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any one of several plants regarded as turning with the movement of the sun.
- noun A plant, Chrozophora tinctoria, of the Euphorbiaceæ, found in the Mediterranean region and eastward to Persia and India.
- noun Same as
turnsole-blue .
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** Clytia -- The Chrysanthemum Peruvianum, or, to employ a better-known term, the turnsol -- which turns continually towards the sun, covers itself, like Peru, the country from which it comes, with dewy clouds which cool and refresh its flowers during the most violent heat of the day.
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** Clytia -- The Chrysanthemum Peruvianum, or, to employ a better-known term, the turnsol -- which continually turns towards the sun, covers itself, like Peru, the country from which it comes, with dewy clouds which cool and refresh its flowers during the most violent heat of the day.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 Edgar Allan Poe 1829
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The several solutions, when thoroughly saturated, are all astringent with a slight degree of an acid taste, and they also agree with a solution of alum in this, that they give a red colour to the infusion of turnsol.
Experiments upon magnesia alba, Quicklime, and some other Alcaline Substances Joseph Black 1763
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