tournesol
See also: tournésol
French
editEtymology
editInherited from Old French tournesole, from Latin tornare + sol.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittournesol m (plural tournesols)
- sunflower
- Synonym: soleil
- heliotrope
- (chemistry) litmus
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “tournesol” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
- “tournesol” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “tournesol”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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