brown vs heliotrope

brown

noun
  • A colour like that of chocolate or coffee. 

  • Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae). 

  • A mass of birds or animals that may be indiscriminately fired at. 

  • One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points. 

  • A brown trout (Salmo trutta). 

  • A brown horse or other animal. 

  • Any of certain species of nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae, such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis. 

  • Black tar heroin. 

  • A person of Latino, Middle Eastern or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance. 

verb
  • To make brown or dusky. 

  • To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region. 

  • To cook something until it becomes brown. 

  • To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface. 

  • To tan. 

  • To become brown. 

adj
  • Southeast Asian 

  • Having a brown colour. 

  • Latino 

  • South Asian 

heliotrope

noun
  • A light purple or violet colour. 

  • Particularly, a purple-flowered plant of the species Heliotropium arborescens. 

  • A bloodstone (a variety of quartz). 

  • An instrument, employed in triangulation, that uses a mirror to reflect sunlight toward another, very distant, surveyor. 

  • The fragrance of heliotrope flowers. 

  • A plant that turns so that it faces the sun. 

adj
  • Light purple or violet. 

  • Keeping one’s face turned toward the sun. 

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