The corpus record

ἡλιο-τρόπιον

*eliotropion · τό

heliotrope

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What it meant — LSJ

heliotrope, Heliotropium villosum, H. supinum

heliotrope, Thphr. HP 7.3.1, Gal. 19.732; ἡ. τὸ μέγα, Heliotropium villosum, Dsc. 4.190; ἡ. τὸ μικρόν, H. supinum, ib. 191.

2 Croton tinctorius

= Croton tinctorius, PHolm. 8.3, al.

II sun-dial

sun-dial, Moschio ap. Ath. 5.207f, IG ΙΙ(2).287 A 117 (Delos, iii B.C.), Plu. Dio 29, Sch. Ar. Av. 998, etc.

III green stone streaked with red, blood-stone

green stone streaked with red, blood-stone, Plin. HN 37.165, Herm.Trism. in Rev.Phil. 32.258.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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