Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä

Synonyymit

Ääntäminen

  • ÄäntäminenSouthern England
  • ÄäntäminenSouthern England
  • RP:
    • IPA: /ˈhiː.li.ə.tɹəʊp/
    • IPA: /ˈhɛ-/
    • IPA: /-lɪ.əʊ-/
  • GA:
    • IPA: /ˈhi.li.əˌtɹoʊp/
KieliKäännökset
espanjaheliotropo
italiaeliotropio, eliotropo
japaniヘリオトロープ (heriotorōpu / heriotorōbu), キダチルリソウ (kidachirurisō / kidachirisō), ニオイムラサキ (nioimurasaki), 薄紫 (usumurasaki)
kreikkaηλιοτρόπιο (iliotrópio / iliotrόpio)
latinaheliotropium, hēliotropium
portugaliheliotrópio
ranskahéliotrope, tournesol
saksaHeliotrop
suomiheliotrooppi, -suvun kasvi
tanskaheliotrop
venäjäгелиотроп (geliotrop)

Määritelmät

Substantiivi

  1. (countable, botany, also, figuratively) A plant with flowers which turn to face and follow the sun, such as (archaic) marigolds and sunflowers.
  2. (specifically) A plant of the genus Heliotropium, especially the common heliotrope (Heliotropium arborescens) which has clusters of purple flowers with a strong fragrance.
  3. With a qualifying word: any of various plants resembling those of the genus Heliotropium.
  4. (uncountable) The fragrance of Heliotropium arborescens flowers, or a scent resembling this fragrance.
  5. (uncountable) A light purple or violet colour like that of Heliotropium arborescens flowers.
  6. (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).
  7. (countable, historical) An ancient type of sundial consisting of a bowl with a perpendicular gnomon mounted in the centre.
  8. (countable, uncountable, mineralogy) Synonym of bloodstone (“a green chalcedony that is sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite”).

Adjektiivi

  1. 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

Monikkoheliotropes
Komparatiivimore heliotrope
Superlatiivimost heliotrope

Of a light purple or violet colour like that of Heliotropium arborescens flowers.

Heliotrope 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).

Heliotrope (c. 1878): B.A. Colonna collection (NOAA). This may be the very one Colonna surveyed from 192 miles away.

(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