Ääntäminen
Southern England
Southern England
- RP:
- IPA: /ˈhiː.li.ə.tɹəʊp/
- IPA: /ˈhɛ-/
- IPA: /-lɪ.əʊ-/
- GA:
Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- (countable, botany, also, figuratively) A plant with flowers which turn to face and follow the sun, such as (archaic) marigolds and sunflowers.
- (specifically) A plant of the genus Heliotropium, especially the common heliotrope (Heliotropium arborescens) which has clusters of purple flowers with a strong fragrance.
- With a qualifying word: any of various plants resembling those of the genus Heliotropium.
- (uncountable) The fragrance of Heliotropium arborescens flowers, or a scent resembling this fragrance.
- (uncountable) A light purple or violet colour like that of Heliotropium arborescens flowers.
- (countable) An instrument that uses a mirror to reflect sunlight for purposes such as signalling, or (surveying) triangulation (where the reflected light is detected by another surveyor positioned some distance away).
- (countable, historical) An ancient type of sundial consisting of a bowl with a perpendicular gnomon mounted in the centre.
- (countable, uncountable, mineralogy) Synonym of bloodstone (“a green chalcedony that is sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite”).
Adjektiivi
- Of a light purple or violet colour like that of Heliotropium arborescens flowers.
Esimerkit
- As they entered now, it seemed a blaze of roses and carnations, though one recognized in a moment the presence of the lily, the heliotrope, and the stock.
- "...the face of Dr. Willi Dingkopf, framed by a haircut in violation of more than one law of physics, and a vivid necktie in fuchsia, heliotrope, and duck green..."
- ... he had always smelt so much more of heliotrope than of gunpowder.
- Ransacking the drawers of the dresser he came upon a discarded, tiny, ragged handkerchief. He pressed it to his face. It was racy and insolent with heliotrope; [...]
- And following that was a tortuous passage through a weird region of clay dunes, blue and violet and heliotrope and lavender, all worn smooth by rain and wind.
- Lady in a heliotrope dress with a lace collar, three flounces on the skirt?
- while still as on the night before, slouched Ahab stood fixed within his scuttle; his hid, heliotrope glance anticipatingly gone backward on its dial; sat due eastward for the earliest sun.
- European ~ rikkaheliotrooppi ()
Taivutusmuodot
(countable, uncountable, mineralogy) Synonym of bloodstone (“a green chalcedony that is sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite”).
A tumble-polished pebble of heliotrope, also called bloodstone