Word Finder - heliotrope

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A plant that turns so that it faces the sun.

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A light purple or violet colour.

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The fragrance of heliotrope flowers.

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A bloodstone (a variety of quartz).

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An instrument, employed in triangulation, that uses a mirror to reflect sunlight toward another, very distant, surveyor.

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Light purple or violet.

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Keeping one’s face turned toward the sun.

Heliotrope or cherry-pie (Heliotropium peruvianum) is a well-known garden plant.

As part of geodesic surveying work he invented the heliotrope.

Dark purple heliotrope are flowering in pots, and I've also bought purple petunias as bedding plants this year.

Yellowhammers & Reed Buntings - Barley Lane A patch of winter heliotrope is in flower along barley lane.

This summer weâll have marigolds, blue salvia, begonias and heliotrope in there.

Towering eucalyptus, graceful pepper trees, tropic palms, rubber trees, giant bananas, yuccas and a wonderful growth of roses, heliotrope, calla lilies in hedges, orange trees, jasmine, giant geraniums and other flowers beautify the city throughout the year.

The most familiar is N. stylosa, perhaps better known as an Iberis, which makes tiny dark green cushions barely 2 inches high, covered early in the year with clusters of rosy-purple flowers smelling smelling like heliotrope.

Winter Heliotrope (Petasites) - P. fragrans is a rampant weed blooming in December and January, unless the weather is very severe.

The heliotrope rash is either accompanied or followed by weakness of the body's central muscles; that is, the muscles on or close to the trunk of the body.

The major symptoms of juvenile dermatomyositis include a characteristic reddish or purplish rash called a heliotrope rash; weakness or pain in the proximal muscles; and a low-grade fever.

Many doctors, however, skip this test if the child has the typical heliotrope rash, shows signs of muscle weakness during the physical examination, and has high muscle enzyme levels in the blood test.

A muscle biopsy is necessary, however, if the child has the heliotrope rash but normal enzyme levels.

The characteristic skin rash of JDMS is sometimes called a heliotrope rash because of its reddish-purple color.

Pyrazine, C4H4N2, crystallizes from water in prisms, which have a heliotrope odour.

See AGATE, BLOODSTONE, CARNELIAN, CHRYSOPRASE, HELIOTROPE, MOCHA STONE, ONYX, SARD and SARDONYX.

Indeed, she remembers HELIOTROPE and CHRYSANTHEMUM more readily than she does shorter names.

Some coarse kinds are opaque, resembling in this respect jasper, and some writers have sought to restrict the name "bloodstone" to green jasper, with red markings, thus making heliotrope a translucent and bloodstone an opaque stone, but, though convenient, such a distinction is not generally recognized.

Pelargoniums, pinks, monthly roses and all the half-hardy kinds of flowering plants should be planted early, but coleus, heliotrope and the more tender plants should be delayed until the end of the month.