Crossword-Solution: TURNSOLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Turnsole | a. | A plant of the genus Heliotropium; heliotrope; -- so named because its flowers are supposed to turn toward the sun. |
| Turnsole | a. | The sunflower. |
| Turnsole | a. | A kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia). |
| Turnsole | a. | The euphorbiaceous plant Chrozophora tinctoria. |
| Turnsole | a. | Litmus. |
| Turnsole | a. | A purple dye obtained from the plant turnsole. See def. 1 (d). |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TURNSOLE | anagram | NORESULT |
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| Sunflower | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with TURNSOLE (5)
The SMALL-FLOWERED TURNSOLE, Heliotropium parviflorum, _B'hoo roodee_, differs from the rest of this family which are mostly perennials; it yields groups of white flowers, which are fragrant.
The Wild Succory (_Cichorium intybus_) is a common roadside English plant, white or blue, belonging to the Composite order, and called also Turnsole, because it always turns its flowers towards the sun.
The market for plants and flowers in pots, and for nosegays, is kept on the _Quai de la Megisserie_, twice a week, very early in the morning; the following were the most abundant: _Nerium_ double flowering pomegranate, _vinca rosea_, (Madagascar periwinkle) _prickly lantana, peruvian heliotropium_ (turnsole) tuberoses, with very large and numerous single and double flowers, and very great quantities of common sweet basil, which is much used in cookery.
Then also to the white jelly one race of ginger pare'd and slic't & three blades of large mace, to the red jelly 2 nutmegs, as much in quantity of cinamon as nutmegs, also as much ginger; to the turnsole put also the same quantity, with a few whole cloves; then to the amber or yellow color, the same spices and quantity.
The lower part from _a_ was filled with water tinged blue, or rather purple, with the juice of turnsole, or archil.