TURNSOLE

Definition: TURNSOLE

TURNSOLE

Adjective

1. A purple dye obtained from the plant turnsole. See def. 1 (d).

2. Litmus.

3. The euphorbiaceous plant Chrozophora tinctoria.

4. A kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia).

5. The sunflower.

6. A plant of the genus Heliotropium; heliotrope; -- so named because its flowers are supposed to turn toward the sun.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Food & Agriculture

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: TURNSOLE

Arabic 

‏عباد الشمس (sunflower). (various references)

Danish

lakmusplante (litmus). (various references)

Dutch

tournesol (litmus). (various references)

French

tournesol des teinturiers, tournesol, maurelle. (various references)

German

Lackmuskraut (litmus), Färberkroton (litmus). (various references)

Greek 

χρωματοφόρος η βαφική (litmus). (various references)

Hungarian

napraforgó (heliotrope, sunflower). (various references)

Italian

moro dei tintori (litmus), fustik (litmus). (various references)

Pig Latin

urnsoletay

Portuguese

girassol (litmus, sunflower). (various references)

Russian 

лакмус (litmus). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

suncokret (heliotrope, sunflower), lakmus biljka. (various references)

Spanish

tornasol (litmus, sunflower). (various references)

Swedish

lackmusväxt (litmus). (various references)

Chrozophora tinctoria, Croton tinctoria. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "TURNSOLE": turnsoles. (additional references)

Misspellings

"TURNSOLE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Murasoli, Tugnoli, turnsle. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: runlets, tenours, tonsure.

-2 letters: enrols, ensoul, lentos, loners, lunets, luster, lustre, nerols, nestor, noters, ostler, ouster, outers, result, rouens, routes, runlet, rustle, solute, souter, sterol, stolen, stoner, stoure, sutler, telson, tenors, tenour, tensor, toners, tousle, trones, tuners, ulster, unrest.

-3 letters: enols, enrol, euros, lenos, lento, loner, lores, loser, lotus, lours, louse, louts, lunes.

+1 letter: consulter, outlearns, outliners, roundlets, turnsoles.

+2 letters: consulters, nucleators, outlanders, resolution, tendrilous, underplots, volunteers.

+3 letters: construable, courtliness, fluorescent, fluorinates, laureations, neurologist, neutrophils, outgenerals, regulations, resolutions, revolutions, roundtables, strenuously, tourmalines, ulcerations, venturously, voluntaries.

+4 letters: buttonholers, counterblast, counterblows, counterflows, counterfoils, counterplans, counterplays, counterpleas, counterplots, counterploys, counterspell, counterstyle, countervails, crenulations, electrotonus, elutriations, extraneously, fluorescents, granulocytes, irresolution, leukotrienes, lustrousness, luteotropins, monocultures, mournfullest, multisensory, neuroleptics, neurologists, neurulations, neutrinoless, numerologist, outwrestling, polyneuritis, portentously, proconsulate, reinoculates, reluctations, resoluteness, revaluations, seropurulent, sportfulness, surmountable, thunderbolts, thunderously, tremendously, underclothes, unmoralities, upholstering, volunteerism.