turnup

1. An unexpected event or result, especially of a favorable nature. ( Slang .) chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; turnerad shrubby, with simple or stellate pubescence. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, generally with two glands on the petiole. Flowers usually axillary, their pedicel sometimes cohering with the petiole; bractlets two; calyx inferior, often colored; petals five, yollowish, rarely blue, inserted into the tube of the calyx; stamens five, similarly inserted; styles three, more or le cohering; ovary superior, one celled, with three parietal placente; ovules indef. inite in number; fruit a capsule, three-valved, one celled, opening down to the middle; seeds reticu lated. From the West Indies and South America. Known genera two; species sixty. ( Lindley.) tür-ner-ăd, s. [Mod. Lat. turner (a); English suff. -ad.] Bot. ( pl.): The Turner aceæ. ( Lindley. )