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heliotrope

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. green chalcedony with red spots that resemble blood [syn: bloodstone ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Heliotrope is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Charles Maigne and written by Robert W. Chambers and Will M. Ritchey. The film stars Wilfred Lytell, Ben Hendricks Sr., Julia Swayne Gordon , Betty Hilburn, Diana Allen, and Frederick Burton . ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"plant which turns its flowers and leaves to the sun," 1620s, from French héliotrope (14c.) and directly from Latin heliotropium , from Greek heliotropion , from helios "sun" (see sol ) + tropos "turn" (see trope ). The word was applied c.1000-1600 in Latin ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A huge fire was burning, and beside it sat Aunt Emily, dressed in heliotrope and a number of shawls. ▪ At the same time, a drought affected the area, and heliotrope had time to grow and go to seed. ▪ Beyond her kitchen window, ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Light purple or violet. 2 Keeping one’s face turned toward the sun. n. 1 (context botany English) A plant that turns so that it faces the sun. 2 (context botany English) Particularly, a purple-flowered plant of the species (taxlink Heliotropium arborescens ...

Usage examples of heliotrope.

Heliotrope was a paraplegic pharmacologist from Berkeley, beautiful and brilliant, and a bathtub chemist of underground renown.

I studied the goosebumps on the arms of Lady Heliotrope as she sympathized with Lord Golden.

His face was congested to a deep shade of heliotrope, but his nostrils were livid with the whiteness of a berserk passion that would have been fuelled rather than assuaged by buckets of human blood.

So it wasn't to bewondered at if Miss Heliotrope and Old Parson forgot to come in totea.

And there they all fourwere, Wiggins and Serena sleeping before the fire and Sir Benjamin andMiss Heliotrope beside them seated one on each side of the small tablethat usually stood against the wall with the chessmen and workbox uponit.

The Heliotrope of the fable of Clytie is called Turn-sole in old English books, and such a plant is known in England.

There were rocks with heliotrope pouring over them and flowers peeping behind them, and great azaleas all in triumphant bloom, and ropes of flowering creepers coming down from trees, and oleanders, and a plant named popularly Joy of the South, and small paths went along it edged with shells brought from the far sea.

Modem medicine can do a lot for vampires: periodic blood impplants to stifle dieir hunting urge, heliotrope badis to let diem go abroad between dawn and dusk (never on Sunday.

You act reflexively, doing what you're trained to do with no more consciousness than a heliotrope facing toward the sun.

She was making an elastic stocking of heliotrope silk, turning the Spiral machine with slow, balanced regularity, occasionally bending down to see her work or to adjust the needles.

Here are the magnolia, the laurel, the Japanese medlar, the oleander, the pepper, the bay, the date-palm, a tree called the plumbago, another from the Cape of Good Hope, the pomegranate, the elder in full leaf, the olive, salvia, heliotrope.

He turns, revealing upon the back a gigantick and Floridly render'd Chinese Dragon, in many colors, including Heliotrope and Prussian Blue.

Every wild lilac and wild rose, every white sage and rank jimsonweed, every heliotrope and creosote bush: gathered them all up in their hot embrace and borne them into the hidden channel of Coldheart Canyon.

Another species known as the Winter Heliotrope, or Sweet-scented Coltsfoot (P.