"Phototropic" is a word in ENGLISH

A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants (Boraginaceae) which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar's lice, and many pestiferous …

See Heliotrope.

An apparatus for telegraphing by means of the sun's rays. See Heliotrope, 3.

An instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, by which a sunbeam is made apparently stationary, by being steadily …

An instrument for making signals to an observer at a distance, by means of the sun's rays thrown from a …

An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.

A plant of the genus Heliotropium; -- called also turnsole and girasole. H. Peruvianum is the commonly cultivated species with …

See Bloodstone (a).

The person at a geodetic station who has charge of the heliotrope.

Manifesting heliotropism; turning toward the sun.

The phenomenon of turning toward the light, seen in many leaves and flowers.

A plant of the genus Heliotropium; heliotrope; -- so named because its flowers are supposed to turn toward the sun.