heliotrope

heliotrope definitions

• Light purple or violet. 

• Keeping one’s face turned toward the sun. 

• 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.