Heliotrope - What does it mean?
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(botany) A plant that turns so that it faces the sun.
(botany) Particularly, a purple-flowered plant of the species .
* 1870, Benjamin Disraeli, Lothair
A light purple or violet colour.
* 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , page 623
The fragrance of heliotrope flowers.
* 1881, Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
* 1906 , O. Henry,
(mineral) A bloodstone (a variety of quartz).
(surveying) An instrument, employed in triangulation, that uses a mirror to reflect sunlight toward another, very distant, surveyor.
Light purple or violet.
* 1904, Jerome K. Jerome, Tommy and Co.
* 1917, Zane Grey, Wildfire
Keeping one’s face turned toward the sun.
* 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick
heliotrope
English
(wikipedia heliotrope)Noun
- As they entered now, it seemed a blaze of roses and carnations, though one recognized in a moment the presence of the lily, the heliotrope, and the stock.
- "...the face of Dr. Willi Dingkopf, framed by a haircut in violation of more than one law of physics, and a vivid necktie in fuchsia, heliotrope, and duck green..."
- ... he had always smelt so much more of heliotrope than of gunpowder.
- Ransacking the drawers of the dresser he came upon a discarded, tiny, ragged handkerchief. He pressed it to his face. It was racy and insolent with heliotrope ; [...]
Synonyms
* (rock) bloodstoneAdjective
(en adjective)- Lady in a heliotrope dress with a lace collar, three flounces on the skirt?
- And following that was a tortuous passage through a weird region of clay dunes, blue and violet and heliotrope and lavender, all worn smooth by rain and wind.
- while still as on the night before, slouched Ahab stood fixed within his scuttle; his hid, heliotrope glance anticipatingly gone backward on its dial; sat due eastward for the earliest sun.