Periwinkle

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In Australia, a name given to the gastropod Turbo undulatus.
  • noun. A plant of the genus Vinca, most often one or other of the familiar garden species, v. major, the larger, and v. minor, the lesser periwinkle.
  • noun. A kind of seasnail; any member of the family Littorinidæ, and especially of the genus Littorina. See cuts under Littorina and Littorinidæ.
  • noun. One of several large whelks or conch-shells, as Busycon (Fulgur) carica, Sycotypus canaliculatus, and various species of Purpura, as P. ostrina, P. lapillus, P. floridana: commonly called winkles or wrinkles. They are pests in the oyster-beds.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Any small marine gastropod shell of the genus Littorina. The common European species (Littorina littorea), in Europe extensively used as food, has recently become naturalized abundantly on the American coast. See littorina.
  • noun. A trailing herb of the genus Vinca.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A color with bluish and purplish hues, somewhat light.
  • adjective. Of pale bluish purple colour.
  • noun. A mollusk of genus Littorina.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers
  • noun. edible marine gastropod
  • noun. chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers
  • noun. small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked
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    "And the ones I tried on were brown; the model's are in periwinkle pinstripes!"
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    myrtle  vinca  winkle  
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