- 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 fragrant flowers. - An instrument for making signals to an observer at a
distance, by means of the sun's rays thrown from a mirror. - See Bloodstone (a).
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