Turion

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A thick fleshy young shoot or sucker, such as an emerging stem of asparagus.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A bud, produced by some aquatic plants, that becomes detached and dormant until the following spring
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Same as turio.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A scaly shoot from a subterranean bud, becoming a new stem, as those annually produced by many perennial herbs, as the asparagus, the hop, and many grasses.
  • Word Usage
    "[13] And to the cen - turion Jesus said, "Go; be it done for you as you have believed.""
    Variant
    turio