heliotrope vs pansy

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. 

pansy

noun
  • A deep purple colour, like that of the pansy. 

  • A cultivated flowering plant, derived by hybridization within species Viola tricolor. 

  • Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Junonia. 

  • A timid, weak man or boy; a wuss. 

adj
  • Wimpy; spineless; feeble. 

  • Of a deep purple colour, like that of the pansy. 

verb
  • To mess about; to fail to get things done. 

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