A World of Color: Purple

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  1. African violet
    tropical African plant cultivated as a houseplant for its violet or white or pink flowers
  2. amethyst
    of a moderate purple color
  3. blackberry
    large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus
  4. eggplant
    an egg-shaped vegetable that usually has a dark-purple color
  5. grape
    any of various juicy fruit of the genus Vitis with green or purple skins; grow in clusters
  6. heather
    a low purple-flowered plant grown in the northern hemisphere
  7. indigo
    a blue-violet color
  8. iris
    colored part of the eye that controls the size of the pupil
  9. lavender
    a pale purple color
  10. lilac
    of a pale purple color
  11. magenta
    of deep purplish red
  12. mauve
    a moderate purple
  13. mulberry
    sweet usually dark purple blackberry-like fruit of any of several mulberry trees of the genus Morus
  14. plum
    any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit
  15. purple
    a color or pigment intermediate between red and blue
  16. reddish purple
    a shade of purple tinged with red
  17. royal purple
    a shade of purple tinged with red
  18. thistle
    any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves
  19. Tyrian purple
    a red-purple to deep purple dye obtained from snails or made synthetically
  20. violet
    a bluish-purple color
  21. wisteria
    any flowering vine of the genus Wisteria
  22. jam
    preserve of crushed fruit
  23. orchid
    any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors
  24. orchil
    a purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens
  25. pansy
    large-flowered garden plant derived chiefly from the wild pansy of Europe and having velvety petals of various colors
  26. periwinkle
    chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers
Created on Wed Aug 23 11:29:48 EDT 2023 (updated Mon Oct 02 12:54:45 EDT 2023)

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