heliotrope

heliotrope has 5 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 10.

Definitions

• n.. An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.
• n.. A plant of the genus Heliotropium; -- called also turnsole and girasole. H. Peruvianum is the commonly cultivated species with fragrant flowers.
• n.. An instrument for making signals to an observer at a distance, by means of the sun's rays thrown from a mirror.
• n.. See Bloodstone (a).
• n.. green chalcedony with red spots that resemble blood