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noun. Any of several plants of the genus Heliotropium, especially H. arborescens, native to Peru and having small, highly fragrant purplish flowers.

noun. The garden heliotrope.

noun. Any of various plants that turn toward the sun.

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noun. A moderate, light, or brilliant violet to moderate or deep reddish purple.

noun. A direct coal-tar color of the disazo type, derived from dianisidine. It dyes unmordanted cotton reddish violet in an alkaline salt bath.

noun. In astronomy, an instrument for showing when the sun arrives at the solstitial points.

noun. A mirror arranged with a telescope and sights so as to flash a reflection of the sun to a great distance. The instrument is used in geodetic triangulation to mark a station. See heliograph, 1.

noun. A plant of the genus Heliotropium, of the natural order Boraginaceæ.

noun. The bluish-purple or pinkish-lilac color of some flowers of the heliotrope.

noun. A mineral, a subspecies of quartz, of a deep-green color, peculiarly pleasant to the eye.

noun. An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.

noun. A plant of the genus Heliotropium; -- called also turnsole and girasole. Heliotropium Peruvianum is the commonly cultivated species with fragrant flowers.

noun. An instrument for making signals to an observer at a distance, by means of the sun's rays thrown from a mirror.

noun. See Bloodstone (a).

noun. a grayish purple color.

noun. A plant that turns so that it faces the sun.

noun. Particularly, a purple-flowered plant of the species Heliotropium arborescens.

noun. A light purple or violet colour.

noun. The fragrance of heliotrope flowers.

noun. A bloodstone (a variety of quartz).

noun. An instrument, employed in triangulation, that uses a mirror to reflect sunlight toward another, very distant, surveyor.

adjective. Light purple or violet.

adjective. Keeping one’s face turned toward the sun.

noun. green chalcedony with red spots that resemble blood

"The small aromatic flower which we call heliotrope, with its violet hue and delightful perfume, more nearly answers the description."

Colours  alizarin heliotrope  heliotrope 2b  indian heliotrope  winter heliotrope  

heliotropic  heliotropism  

heliotrope cyanosis  winter heliotrope  

calcedony  chalcedony  

bergamot  gardenia  geranium  hyacinth  jasmine  

bloodstone  

bloodstone  girasole  turnsole