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Image:Heliotropium arborescens1.jpg|thumb|a heliotrope (Heliotropium arborescens)

Etymology
from Greek ήλιο� �sun� and ����ο� �turning�.

Pronunciation
(US) IPA|/�hi�li��tro�p/

Noun
heliotrope

1. botany A plant that turns so that it faces the sun.
2. botany Particularly, a purple-flowered plant of the species Heliotropium arborescens.

#*1870, Benjamin Disraeli, Lothair
#*: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.

1. colour A light purple or violet colour.

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1. The fragrance of heliotrope flowers.

#*1881, Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
#*:... he had always smelt so much more of heliotrope than of gunpowder.

1. mineralogy A bloodstone (a variety of quartz).

Synonyms
rock
bloodstone

Translations
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Japanese: ������� (heriotor�bu), ������� (kidachiris�), ������� (nioimurasaki)
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Russian: гелио��оп /g'eliotróp/ m
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Japanese: �紫 (������, usumurasaki)
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Russian: гелио��оп /g'eliotróp/ m
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Spanish: heliotropo
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Adjective
heliotrope

1. colour Light purple or violet.

#*1904, Jerome K. Jerome, Tommy and Co.
#*:Lady in a heliotrope dress with a lace collar, three flounces on the skirt?
#*1917, Zane Grey, Wildfire
#*: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.

1. Keeping one�s face turned toward the sun.

#*1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick
#*: 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.

Derived terms
winter heliotrope

See also
Wiktionary_Appendix:Colours|Appendix:Colours

Category:Colors
Category:Flowers
Category:Gems
Category:Greek derivations
Category:Purples

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