girasol

Harris tells us the name may have been a corruption of “girasol,” Italian for sunflower.

From this girasol we have made Jerusalem, and from the Jerusalem artichoke we make Palestine soup.'

Very learnedly then from William's lips fell the new vocabulary that had come to him with his latest treasures: chrysoprase, carnelian, girasol, onyx, plasma, sardonyx, lapis lazuli, tourmaline, chrysolite, hyacinth, and carbuncle.

Yellow goldes: The sunflower, turnsol, or girasol, which turns with and seems to watch the sun, as a jealous lover his mistress.