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/hˈiliətrˌoʊp/ Listen

noun

Heliotrope n.

(Anc. Astron.) An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.

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

(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.

(Min.) See Bloodstone (a).

Heliotrope purple, a grayish purple color.

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Etymology of 'Heliotrope'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Heliotrope" Quotes from Famous Books

... him nervously as he pushed aside the dividing curtain, and looked into the adjoining room. It was still vacant. The window stood open, and the line of the sea, glittering in the moon, shone far off like a string of jewels,—while the perfume of heliotrope and lilies came floating in deliciously on the cool night-breeze. Satisfied that there was as yet no sign of his Royal master, he turned back again,—and stooping his tall head, kissed the charming girl, whose anxious and timid looks betrayed her ...

— Temporal Power • Marie Corelli

... odour of heliotrope, is prepared artificially from safrol. It crystallises in small prisms melting at 86 ...

— The Handbook of Soap Manufacture • W. H. Simmons

... extreme delight in calling to mind the slightest circumstances of our meeting, the smallest details of her features, her toilette, her manner of walking and carrying her head. What had impressed me most was the extreme softness of her dark eyes, the almost childish tone of her voice, a vague odor of heliotrope with which her hair was perfumed; also the touch of her hand upon my arm. I sometimes caught myself embracing myself in order to feel this last sensation again, and then I could not help laughing at my thoughts, which were ...

— Gerfaut, Complete • Charles de Bernard

... that this doll lacked grace and style—that she was gross, that she was course. But I loved her in spite of that; I loved her just for that; I loved her only; I wanted her. My soldiers and my drums had become as nothing in my eyes, I ceased to stick sprigs of heliotrope and veronica into the mouth of my rocking-horse. That doll was all the world to me. I invented ruses worthy of a savage to oblige Virginie, my nurse, to take me by the little shop in the Rue de Seine. I would press ...

— The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard • Anatole France

... crease between the seat and back of Aunt Tillie's most cherished article of furniture and of course she pounced upon it with the intention of destroying it at the cookstove. But when she drew it forth, she found that it was an envelope, heliotrope in color, that it bore Peter's name in a feminine handwriting, and that it had a strange delicate odor with which Beth was unfamiliar. She held it in her hand and looked at the writing, then turned it over and over, now holding it more gingerly by the tip ends ...

— The Vagrant Duke • George Gibbs

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