What Does Heliotrope Mean?
Primarily the word heliotrope is used for a garden plant that has flowers of pale purple colour and they also have a sweet smell. But popularly the word has been used to describe the pale purple colour. There are some other things also that are known to the world as heliotrope. One of the most famous objects is a stone which is predominantly green but there are some flecks of red. The popular term for this kind of stone is bloodstone. Heliotrope can also be used for a kind of instrument that is fitted with a mirror to reflect sunlight that can help to mark the positions of the participants in the survey of land. The word has its origin in Greek language where ‘helios’ means the sun and ‘tropos’ conveys the meaning of turn. The name best explains the instrument as it can be turned reflecting the sunlight towards a certain point.
