1) Bloodstone 2) Calcedony 3) Chalcedony 4) French word used in English 5) Purple 6) Reddish purple color 7) Shade of violet 8) Solar architecture 9) Sunflower, notably
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1) Bloodstone 2) Purple
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[Gauss] Jackson Hole Airport, Wyoming. ...
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[building] The Heliotrope is an environmentally friendly house designed by the German architect Rolf Disch who also designed the Sonnenschiff (Sun Ship). Three such houses exist in Germany, the first experimental version having been built in 1994 as the architect`s home in Freiburg im Breisgau, while the other two are used as exhibition bui...
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[color] Heliotrope is a pink-purple tint that is a representation of the color of the heliotrope flower. The first recorded use of Heliotrope as a color name in English was in 1882. ==Variations of heliotrope== ===Heliotrope gray=== The color heliotrope gray is displayed at right. The first recorded use of heliotrope gray as a color name in...
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[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 in 1821 by the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. The word `heliotrope` is taken from the Greek: helios (Ἥλιος), meaning `sun`, and tropos ...
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[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 inclusions are yellow, in which case the mineral is given the ...
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purplish hue; purplish-flowered plant; ancient sundial; signalling mirror
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• (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 from a mirror. • (n.) An instrument or machine ...
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(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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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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(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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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 signals to an observer at a distance, by means of the su...
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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 arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line. 2.
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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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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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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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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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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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