- Noun: Heliotrope
- a plant of the borage family, cultivated for its fragrant purple or blue flowers, which are used in perfume
- a plant of the borage family, cultivated for its fragrant purple or blue flowers, which are used in perfume
- Adjective: Heliotrope
- a light purple color, similar to that typical of heliotrope flowers
- Synonyms:
- Purple
- Burgundy
- Grape
- Usage:
- “Struggling with the string of a packet, she opened a white cardboard box, and there lay a white silk handkerchief packed neatly under the paper lace of the box, and her initial, worked in heliotrope, fully displayed. She smiled pleasantly, and gently put the box aside”
- Encountered:
- The short story The White Stocking by D. H. Lawrence
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