garden heliotrope
- noun
- /ˈɡɑrdən ˈhiːliəˌtroʊp/
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- She prefers to plant garden heliotrope for its beautiful clusters of pink flowers.
Examples
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A border of garden heliotrope added a sweet fragrance to the cottage garden.
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The dried roots of the garden heliotrope are often used in traditional remedies.
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The garden heliotrope blooms beautifully in the summer.
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I planted a garden heliotrope in my backyard.
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A border of garden heliotrope added a sweet fragrance to the cottage garden.
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The dried roots of the garden heliotrope are often used in traditional remedies.
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She prefers to plant garden heliotrope for its beautiful clusters of pink flowers.
Synonyms
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A plant with small white or pink flowers and roots used as medicine
A tall plant that lives for many years with fragrant flowers and roots used to help people sleep
A tall plant with strong-smelling flowers whose roots are used to help people sleep
How Fragrant
Surface Forms
Morphology
garden + heliotrope
The noun-noun combination is fully compositional: 'garden' specifies the context/type of 'heliotrope', so a learner who knows both words would understand it as a heliotrope grown or used in gardens. Although 'heliotrope' is a relatively rare lexical item, the modifier + head pattern is regular and cross-linguistically transparent, so the compound meaning is predictable from its parts.
Etymology
Garden heliotrope gets its name from an old idea: the word heliotrope comes from old Greek words for 'sun' and 'turn', because people thought the plant's flowers turned toward the sun. That's why today garden heliotrope simply means the sweet-smelling garden plant.