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HELIOTROPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heliotrope mean? 

HELIOTROPE (noun)
  The noun HELIOTROPE has 1 sense:

1. green chalcedony with red spots that resemble bloodplay

  Familiarity information: HELIOTROPE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HELIOTROPE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Green chalcedony with red spots that resemble blood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

bloodstone; heliotrope

Hypernyms ("heliotrope" is a kind of...):

calcedony; chalcedony (a milky or greyish translucent to transparent quartz)


 Context examples 


So Laurie played and Jo listened, with her nose luxuriously buried in heliotrope and tea roses.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Also called garden heliotrope, garden valerian, Indian valerian, Mexican valerian, valerian, Valeriana officinalis, and Valerianae radix.

(Pacific valerian, NCI Dictionary)

Also called garden heliotrope, garden valerian, Indian valerian, Pacific valerian, valerian, Valeriana officinalis, and Valerianae radix.

(Mexican valerian, NCI Dictionary)

Also called garden heliotrope, Indian valerian, Mexican valerian, Pacific valerian, valerian, Valeriana officinalis, and Valerianae radix.

(Garden valerian, NCI Dictionary)

Also called garden heliotrope, garden valerian, Mexican valerian, Pacific valerian, valerian, Valeriana officinalis, and Valerianae radix.

(Indian valerian, NCI Dictionary)

Meg's had roses and heliotrope, myrtle, and a little orange tree in it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)



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