tournesol
See also: tournésol
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French tournesole, from Latin tornare + sol.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tournesol m (plural tournesols)
- sunflower
- Synonym: soleil
- heliotrope
- (chemistry) litmus
Derived terms edit
Further 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.