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heliotrope

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1. heliotrope - Noun

2. heliotrope - Adjective

Meaning

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

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

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

See Bloodstone (a).

Source: Webster's dictionary

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A black cat among roses, phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon, the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still. It is dazed with moonlight, contented with perfume. Amy Lowell

Other surface coatings are vitrail, moonlight, dorado, satin, star shine, and heliotrope. Source: Internet

Trevor is also the designer behind our new theme, Heliotrope, which will be debuting in InterWorx 5.0. Source: Internet

In some places near the seashore, a low vegetation dominated by Polynesian heliotrope ( Heliotropium anomalum ), yellow purslane (Portulaca lutea) and common purslane ( P. oleracea ) is found. Source: Internet

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