Look up: heliotrope

1. Heliotrope
   (Heliotropium) These are tender, bushy plants that grow 1 to 4 feet high. Their leaves are elliptic or oblong to lanceolate and they grow up to 3 inches long. They produce pretty, wonderfully fragrant flowers in clusters up to 8 inches across. They may be deep blue-violet to purple, lavender, or almost white.…
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2. heliotrope
   variety of quartz Category: Various industries and crafts • a semiprecious,dark-green variety of quartz spotted with red jasper,used as a gem often called heliotrope.A stone consisting of green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots resembling blood and resulting from oxidising of the green Category: Chemistry
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3. Heliotrope
   He'li·o·trope noun [ French héliotrope , Latin heliotropium , Greek ...; ... the sun + ... to turn, ... turn. See Heliacal , Trope .] 1. (Anc. Astron.) An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arriv...
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4. heliotrope
   1. An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line. ... 2. <botany> A plant of the genus Heliotropium; called also turnsole and girasole. H. Peruvianum is the commonly cultivated species with fragrant flowers. ... 3. An instrument for making signal...
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5. Heliotrope
   • (n.) A plant of the genus Heliotropium; -- called also turnsole and girasole. H. Peruvianum is the commonly cultivated species with fragrant flowers. • (n.) See Bloodstone (a). • (n.) An instrument for making signals to an observer at a distance, by means of the sun`s rays thrown fr...
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6. heliotrope
   (from the article `Gauss, Carl Friedrich`) ...in the field in charge of the observations. The project, which lasted from 1818 to 1832, encountered numerous difficulties, but it led to a number ...
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7. heliotrope
   any of about 250 species of tropical or temperate, mostly herbaceous plants that make up the genus Heliotropium (family Boraginaceae) and are ...
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8. heliotrope
   heliotrope 1. A plant that turns or bends in response to sunlight. 2. Any of the genus Heliotropium, a herb or shrub of the borage family. 3. A heliograph that is capable of reflecting solar rays over long distances.
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9. heliotrope
   Type: Term Pronunciation: hēl-ē-ō-trōp′ Definitions: 1. A violaceous to dusky erythematous rash, with or without edema, in a symmetric distribution involving periorbital skin. It is a common cutaneous manifestation of dermatomyositis and is also noted in about 5% of cases of systemic lupus erythematosus.
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10. Heliotrope
    HMS Heliotrope was a British Flower Class corvette of 980 tons displacement launched in 1940. HMS Heliotrope was powered by two 3-drum type boilers providing a top speed of 16 knots. She carried a complement of 85 and was armed with one 4-inch dual-purpose gun; two 20 mm anti-aircraft guns and Hedgehog multiple spigot mortar.
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11. heliotrope
    heliotrope (hē'lēutrōp") [Gr.,=sun-turning] or turnsole,name for any plant that turns to face the sun, especially members of the genus Heliotropium of the family Boraginaceae. The garden heliotrope is a valerian, and the winter heliotrope, or sweet coltsfoot, is a composite...
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12. Heliotrope
    Heliotrope (Heliotropium) is a genus of plants of the family Boraginaceae. The species are herbs or under-shrubs mostly native of the warmer parts of the world and have alternate leaves and small flowers usually disposed in scorpioid cymes.
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13. heliotrope
    Decorative plant belonging to the borage family, with distinctive spikes of blue, lilac, or white flowers, including the Peruvian or cherry pie heliotrope (H. peruvianum). (Genus Heliotropium, family Boraginaceae.)
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14. Heliotrope
    (instrument) The `heliotrope` is an instrument that uses a mirror to reflect sunlight over great distances to mark the positions of participants in a land survey. The heliotrope was invented by the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. The word "heliotrope" is taken from the Gr...
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15. Heliotrope
    (color) `Heliotrope` is a pink-purple tint that is a representation of the color of the heliotrope flower. Another name for this color is vivid lavender. The first recorded use of Heliotrope as a color name in English was in 1882. In popular culture: `Film` `Funeral customs` `Literatur...
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16. Heliotrope
    (mineral) The mineral `heliotrope`, also known as `bloodstone`, is a form of chalcedony (which is a cryptocrystalline mixture of quartz and its monoclinic polymorph moganite). The "classic" bloodstone is green chalcedony with red inclusions of iron oxide or red jasper. Sometimes the...
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17. Heliotrope
    (building) At the same time Freiburg’s Heliotrope was built, Hansgrohe contracted Rolf Disch Solar Architecture to design and build another Heliotrope to be used as a visitor’s center and showroom in Offenburg, Germany. A third Heliotrope was then contracted and built in Hilpolt...
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