carrot vs heliotrope

carrot

noun
  • A redhead; a ginger-haired person 

  • A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, especially the subspecies sativus in the family Apiaceae. 

  • Any motivational tool; an incentive to do something. 

  • A police officer from somewhere within the British Isles, but specifically outside of Greater London. 

  • A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots (also called carrot orange). 

  • Someone from a rural background. 

verb
  • To treat (an animal pelt) with a solution of mercuric nitrate as part of felt manufacture. 

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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