Heliotrope vs Tropein - What's the difference?
heliotrope | tropein |
(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
As nouns the difference between heliotrope and tropein
is that heliotrope is heliotrope (all senses) while tropein is (organic chemistry) any of several mydriatic alkaloids, esters of tropine, extracted from heliotrope.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.
