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What (who) is heliotrope$34317$ - definition
SPECIES OF PLANT
St Helena Heliotrope; St. Helena Heliotrope; Saint Helena Heliotrope; Saint Helena heliotrope; St Helena heliotrope; St. Helena heliotrope
heliotrope
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Heliotrope (disambiguation); Helioptrope; Heliotropes
['hi:l??tr??p, 'h?l-]
¦ noun a plant of the borage family, cultivated for its fragrant purple or blue flowers. [Genus Heliotropium.]
Origin
OE eliotropus (orig. applied to various plants whose flowers turn towards the sun), via L. from Gk heliotropion, from helios 'sun' + trepein 'to turn'.
Heliotrope (instrument)
MEASURING INSTRUMENT
Heliotrope (Gauss)
The heliotrope is an instrument that uses a mirror to reflect sunlight over great distances to mark the positions of participants in a land survey. The heliotrope was invented in 1821 by the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss.
Heliotrope
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Heliotrope (disambiguation); Helioptrope; Heliotropes
·noun ·see Bloodstone (a).
II. Heliotrope ·noun An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.
III. Heliotrope ·noun An instrument for making signals to an observer at a distance, by means of the sun's rays thrown from a mirror.
IV. Heliotrope ·noun A plant of the genus Heliotropium;
- called also turnsole and girasole. H. Peruvianum is the commonly cultivated species with fragrant flowers.
Wikipedia
Heliotropium pannifolium
Heliotropium pannifolium, the Saint Helena heliotrope, is now extinct but was formerly a hairy-leaved small shrub up to 1 m in height. it was only seen once, by the explorer W. Burchell in Broad Gut, Saint Helena (ca. 1808) and has never been seen again. Human impact on the island of Saint Helena was severe and the Saint Helena heliotrope is one of several extinct plants from that island (see List of extinct plants).
