heliotrope

Example Sentences

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The divine scent is often described as a combination of clove, honeysuckle and heliotrope.

From Seattle Times

On hikes I’ve found that these jagged buttes and towering sandstone pinnacles change shades by the hour, from heliotrope red to to nickel gray.

From The Guardian

Nkoloso wore a standard-issue combat helmet, a khaki military uniform, and a flowing cape—multicolored silk or heliotrope velvet, with an embroidered neck and festooned with medals.

From The New Yorker

For fragrance through the seasons, grow plenty of daphne, scented daffodils, viburnum, lilacs, roses, honeysuckle, lilies, sweet peas, lavender and heliotrope.

From Seattle Times

For Miss C., who was interviewed in 1892, “n” was nut-brown, “w” a pinkish heliotrope, and her own initial, “c” a vivid lemon yellow, “the brightest color of all.”

From National Geographic