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plural periwinkles
Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Vinca with blue or white flowers. quotations examples
The Periwinkle is a great binder, staying bleeding both at mouth and nose if some of the leaves be chewed.
1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 220
Similar plants of genus Catharanthus. examples
A color with bluish and purplish hues, somewhat light. examples
comparative more periwinkle, superlative most periwinkle
Of pale bluish purple colour. examples
A mollusk of family Littorinidae. quotations examples
He was working a pin into a periwinkle shell, turning it to extract the toothsome morsel of meat.
2022, Paul McAuley, Beyond the Burn Line, Gollancz, page 217