Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Turritus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

TURRI'TUS. Furnished with a tower or towers; of city walls (Ov. Am. iii. 8. 47.), TURRIS, 2.; of ships (Virg. Aen. viii. 693.), TURRIS, 4.; of elephants (Plin. H. N. viii. 7. 7.), TURRIS, 5.