Definitions for heliotrope

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heliotrope he·li·o·trope

Spelling: [hee-lee-uh-trohp, heel-yuh- Heliotrope is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 480 anagrams from letters in heliotrope (eehilooprt).

Definitions for heliotrope

noun

1. any hairy plant belonging to the genus Heliotropium, of the borage family, as H. arborescens, cultivated for its small, fragrant purple flowers.
2. any of various other plants, as the valerian or the winter heliotrope.
3. any plant that turns toward the sun.
4. a light tint of purple; reddish lavender.
5. Surveying. an arrangement of mirrors for reflecting sunlight from a distant point to an observation station.
6. bloodstone.

Origin of heliotrope

1580-90; Middle French héliotrope Latin hēliotropium Greek hēliotrópion (see helio-, -trope); compare Middle English elitropium, elitropius

Examples for heliotrope

Was this garden, which was all white, in any way connected with the sunbeams and heliotrope?

Sprinkles her handkerchief with heliotrope and wipes the blood from Schn's hand.

The blouse was white, with a little sprig of heliotrope and black.

Lady in a heliotrope dress with a lace collar, three flounces on the skirt?

The dreamy music drifted out; there was a scent of heliotrope.

heliotrope is the name of the scent, my dear, but please do not allude to it again.

And then under the table he espied a square of heliotrope paper.

It was racy and insolent with heliotrope; he hurled it to the floor.

I can tell a geranium, when I see it, and I know a heliotrope by the smell.

When he went abroad to gather garlic he came home with heliotrope.