Heliotrope




SEE: Bloodstone
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
1.
An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.
2.
A plant of the genus Heliotropium; -- called also turnsole and girasole. H. Peruvianum is the commonly cultivated species with fragrant flowers.
3.
An instrument for making signals to an observer at a distance, by means of the sun's rays thrown from a mirror.