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Definition: Heliotrope |
HeliotropeNoun1. Green chalcedony with red spots that resemble blood. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "heliotrope" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Industry | Variety of quartz. Source: European Union. (references) |
Chemistry | A semiprecious, dark-green variety of quartz spotted with red jasper, used as a gem often called heliotrope. A stone consisting of green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots resembling blood and resulting from oxidising of the green. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A stone consisting of green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots resembling blood and resulting from oxidising of the green. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Heliotrope (4 syl.). Apollo loved Clytie, but forsook her for her sister Leucothoe. On discovering this, Clytie pined away; and Apollo changed her at death to a flower, which, always turning towards the sun, is called heliotrope. (Greek, "turn-to-sun.") According to the poets, heliotrope renders the bearer invisible. Boccaccio calls it a stone, but Solinus says it is the herb. "Ut herba ejusdem nominis mixta et præcantationibus legitimis consccrata, eum, a quocunque gestabitur, subtrahat visibus obviorum." (Georgic, xi.) "No hope had they of crevice where to hide, Or heliotrope to charm them out of view." Dante: Inferno, xxiv. "The other stone is heliotrope, which renders those who have it invisible." - Boccaccio: The Decameron, Novel iii., Eighth day. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. A red-spotted, deep-green variety of chalcedony (cryptocrystalline quartz) used as a semiprecious stone. Syn:bloodstone b. An instrument used in geodetic surveying to aid in making long-distance (as much as 320 km) observations; composed of one or more plane mirrors so mounted and arranged that a beam of sunlight is reflected toward a distantsurvey station where it is observed with a theodolite. (references) |
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Synonym: HeliotropeSynonym: bloodstone (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Jewelry | Diamond, brilliant, rock; beryl, emerald; chalcedony, agate, heliotrope; girasol, girasole; onyx, plasma; sard, sardonyx; garnet, lapis lazuli, opal, peridot, tourmaline, chrysolite; sapphire, ruby, synthetic ruby; spinel, spinelle; balais; oriental, oriental topaz; turquois, turquoise; zircon, cubic zirconia; jacinth, hyacinth, carbuncle, amethyst; alexandrite, cat's eye, bloodstone, hematite, jasper, moonstone, sunstone. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Heliotrope |
| English words defined with "heliotrope": Boraginaceous ♦ garden heliotrope, Girasole Girasol ♦ Heliostat, Heliotrope purple, Heliotroper ♦ Turnsole ♦ winter heliotrope. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "heliotrope": xanthus. (references) |
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 | Twelve inch repeating circle (bottom) and heliotrope (top) Fig. No. 27, Report of Superintendent ... 1866.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Heliotrope being used in western United States.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Light reflecting from heliotrope Triangulation party of William M. Scaife.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ||
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| "Heliotrope" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "Heliotrope" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 91.67% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 8.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "heliotrope": garden heliotrope ♦ Heliotrope purple ♦ winter heliotrope. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
heliotrope | 124 |
heliotrope plant | 15 |
flower heliotrope | 11 |
heliotrope ridge | 3 |
heliotrope general | 3 |
heliotrope rash | 3 |
garden heliotrope | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "heliotrope"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | valerianë, purpur, ngjyrë purpuri (orchid), i purpurtë (magenta, purple), gur gjysmë i çmuar, bimë dielldashëse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حجر الدم, رقيب الشمس. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | хелиотроп (bloodstone, plasma). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | druh rostliny (calendula, dog's grass, elecampane, endive, epiphyte, fenugreek, foxbane, foxglove, foxtail, furze, gentian, germander, gillyflower, ginseng, gloxinia, hellebore, hyssop, ipecacuanha, larkspur, lobelia, loganberry, loosestrife, sainfoin, salsify, saltwort, sea kale, shadberry, squill). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | heliotrop (bloodstone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | heliotroop (bloodstone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | héliotrope. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Spiegeltelegraph, heliotrop (bloodstone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ηλιοτρόπιο (bloodstone, litmus, sunflower). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | napraforgó (sunflower, turnsole), lilás rózsaszín. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | eliotropio (bloodstone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ヘブライ語 (health, health center, health check, health club, health food, health meter, healthy, heart, heaven, Hebrew, helicopter, Helios, helioscope, heliport, helium, helix, hell, Hellenism, hellfire, helm, helmet, Helmholtz, help, helper, Helsinki, hem, hemline, hemoglobin, hemstitch, hen party, Henckels, henna, Hepburn, Herakles, herald, Hercules, Hermes, hernia, heroin, herpangina, herringbone, Herzogovina, Hz, Mr, Switzerland, type of massage parlor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ヘリオトロープ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lus veg ny greiney, clagh folley (blood stone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eliotropehay heliotrópio (bloodstone, nom de plume). (various references) heliotrop (bloodstone). (various references) гелиотроп (bloodstone, cherry pie, plasm, plasma). (various references) heliotrop, suncokret (sunflower, turnsole). (various references) heliotropo (bloodstone). (various references) heliotrop (bloodstone), gredelin (lilac, mauve). (various references) "อกไม้ที่หันเข้าหาแสงอาทิตย์. (various references) kediotu (cherry pie, valerian), kantaşı (agate, bloodstone, haematite, specular iron, styptic pencil), güneş çiçeği. (various references) геліотроп (blood-stone, cherry pie, plasm, plasma), геліограф (heliograph). (various references) đá heliotrope. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | HELIOTROPIUM CURASSAVICUM. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "heliotrope": heliotropes. (additional references) | |
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"Heliotrope" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: heliotrobe, heliotroph, hellotrope. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "heliotrope" (pronounced hē"lēutrō'p) |
| 5 | -u t r ō' p | allotrope. |
| 4 | -t r ō' p | tightrope. |
| 3 | -r ō' p | misanthrope. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-h-i-l-o-o-p-r-t" | |
-2 letters: heliport, hotelier, porthole. | |
-3 letters: hootier, hoplite, loopier, perlite, petiole, philter, philtre, poitrel, politer, pothole, prithee, reptile, telpher. | |
-4 letters: either, eloper, eolith, ephori, etoile, helper, hereto, heriot, hetero, hirple, holier, hoolie, hooper, hooter, liroth, lither, loiter, looper, looter, oolite, oolith, ophite, oriole, pelite, pelter, petrel, petrol, piolet, polite, pother, protei, replot, retile, retool, tholoi, thorpe, threep, toiler, tooler, triple. | |
-5 letters: elite, elope, ephor, ether, helio, helot, hoper, hotel, ither, leper, lethe, lirot, liter, lithe, litho, litre, looie, loper, oiler, oorie, oriel, orlop, ortho, other, peril, peter, photo, pilot, plier, poler, polio, poori, prole, relet, relit, reoil, repel, repot, retie, teloi, their, there, thiol, thirl, thole, thoro, thorp, three, thrip, throe, tiler, toile, topee, toper, tophe, tophi, topoi, triol, tripe, troop, trope. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-h-i-l-o-o-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: heliotropes, heteroploid. | |
+2 letters: electrophori, heteroploids, heteroploidy. | |
+3 letters: herpetologies, herpetologist, photoelectric. | |
+4 letters: herpetological, herpetologists, heteroploidies, hyperemotional, radiotelephone, radiotelephony. | |
+5 letters: electrophoresis, electrophoretic, photoelectronic, radiotelephones. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 6C 69 6F 74 72 6F 70 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . .-.. .. --- - .-. --- .--. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101111 01110100 01110010 01101111 01110000 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e l i o t r o p e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 006C 0069 006F 0074 0072 006F 0070 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42717875818684818271 |
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