heliotrope vs lavender

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. 

lavender

noun
  • A pale bluish purple colour, like that of the lavender flower. 

  • Any of a group of European plants, genus, Lavandula, of the mint family. 

  • A kind of film stock for creating positive prints from negatives as part of the process of duplicating the negatives. 

adj
  • Pertaining to lesbian feminism; opposing heterosexism. 

  • Pertaining to LGBT people and rights. 

  • Having a pale purple colour. 

verb
  • To decorate or perfume with lavender. 

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