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Turnpike
- noun - (from 16th to 19th centuries) gates set across a road to prevent passage until a toll had been paid
- an expressway on which tolls are collected
Turnsole
- - A plant of the genus Heliotropium; heliotrope; -- so named because its flowers are supposed to turn toward the sun. (b) The sunflower. (c) A kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia). (d) The euphorbiaceous plant Chrozophora tinctoria.
- Turnsole or folium was a dyestuff prepared from the annual plant Chrozophora tinctoria.
Turnspit
- noun - a servant or small dog whose job was to turn the spit on which meat, poultry, etc, was roasting;
- a roasting spit that can be turned
- a servant or dog used to keep a spit turning.
Turonian
- - One of the subdivisions into which the Upper Cretaceous formation of Europe is divided.
Turquois
- - A hydrous phosphate of alumina containing a little copper; calaite. It has a blue, or bluish green, color, and usually occurs in reniform masses with a botryoidal surface.
Turreaes
- noun - any of numerous trees and shrubs grown for their beautiful glossy foliage and sweetly fragrant starry flowers
Turreted
- - Furnished with a turret or turrets; specifically (Zool.), having the whorls somewhat flattened on the upper side and often ornamented by spines or tubercles; -- said of certain spiral shells.
Turrical
- - Of or pertaining to a turret, or tower; resembling a tower.
Turritis
- noun - closely related to and often included in genus Arabis
Tursiops
- noun - a genus of Delphinidae