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Heliotrope   /hˈiliətrˌoʊp/   Listen
noun
Heliotrope  n.  
1.
(Anc. Astron.) An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.
2.
(Bot.) A plant of the genus Heliotropium; called also turnsole and girasole. Heliotropium Peruvianum is the commonly cultivated species with fragrant flowers.
3.
(Geodesy & Signal Service) An instrument for making signals to an observer at a distance, by means of the sun's rays thrown from a mirror.
4.
(Min.) See Bloodstone (a).
Heliotrope purple, a grayish purple color.






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"Heliotrope" Quotes from Famous Books



... Lane, and a driveway filled in. Tired, confused, train-sick, Martie got down into the old yard, and the old atmosphere enveloped her like a garment. The fuchsia bushes, the marguerites so green on top, so brown and dry under their crown of fresh life, the heliotrope sprawling against the peeling boards under the dining-room windows, and tacked in place with strips of kid glove—how well ...
— Martie the Unconquered • Kathleen Norris

... gentle zephyr that only ruffles the white blossoms of the lime hedges, is off yonder coffee plantation that lies now like a field of clear snow, in its fragrant milk-white blossoms; and what a bewitching mingling of heliotrope and wild honeysuckle is combined in the air! how the gaudy plumed parrot pauses on his perch beneath the branches of the plantain tree, to inhale the sweets of the hour; while the chirps of the pedoreva ...
— The Heart's Secret - The Fortunes of a Soldier, A Story of Love and the Low Latitudes • Maturin Murray

... treasures kept Katy and Clover so busy that it was not until after dinner that they found time to open the smaller box. When they did so, they were sorry for the delay. The box was full of flowers, roses, geranium-leaves, heliotrope, beautiful red and white carnations, all so bedded in cotton that the frost had not touched them. But they looked chilled, and Katy hastened to put them in warm water, which she had been told was the best ...
— What Katy Did At School • Susan Coolidge

... and yet it gives many. All the "extract of new-mown hay" now comes from it. This lovely scent used to be produced, at great expense, from scented grasses. Then there is the scent of vanilla, and the growers of the vanilla bean have lost greatly in consequence. There is also heliotrope perfume prepared from coal-tar, and other extracts for ...
— Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 • Various

... was, and is a beautiful one, low and long, with all the rooms opening on the broad veranda; it is part of adobe and part of wood, the sides being covered with a network of fuchsia, heliotrope and jasmine reaching to the eaves of the brown tile roof; a broad, branching fig tree is in the little court before it, and a clump of yuccas and fan palms to the right, while down to the road and along the front stretches ...
— The Beautiful Eyes of Ysidria • Charles A. Gunnison


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