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Calypso :: Calypso (n.) A small and beautiful species of orchid, having a flower variegated with purple, pink, and yellow. It grows in cold and wet localities in the northern part of the United States. The Calypso borealis is the only orchid which reaches 68¡ N..

Bornite :: Bornite (n.) A valuable ore of copper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur; -- also called purple copper ore (or erubescite), in allusion to the colors shown upon the slightly tarnished surface..

Lucern :: Lucern (n.) A leguminous plant (Medicago sativa), having bluish purple cloverlike flowers, cultivated for fodder; -- called also alfalfa..

Purple :: Purple (n.) Any shell of the genus Purpura.

Wineberry :: Wineberry (n.) A peculiar New Zealand shrub (Coriaria ruscifolia), in which the petals ripen and afford an abundant purple juice from which a kind of wine is made. The plant also grows in Chili..

Purpura :: Purpura (n.) A genus of marine gastropods, usually having a rough and thick shell. Some species yield a purple dye..

Purpre :: Purpre (n. & a.) Purple.

Groundnut :: Groundnut (n.) A leguminous, twining plant (Apios tuberosa), producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste..

Purple :: Purple (n.) See Purpura.

Pansy :: Pansy (n.) A plant of the genus Viola (V. tricolor) and its blossom, originally purple and yellow. Cultivated varieties have very large flowers of a great diversity of colors. Called also heart's-ease, love-in-idleness, and many other quaint names..

Pallium :: Pallium (n.) A band of white wool, worn on the shoulders, with four purple crosses worked on it; a pall..

Purple :: Purple (a.) Blood-red; bloody.

Poke :: Poke (n.) A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca (P. decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget, pigeon berry, pocan, and pokeweed. The root and berries have emetic and purgative properties, and are used in medicine. The young shoots are sometimes eaten as a substitute for asparagus, and the berries are said to be used in Europe to color wine..

Violaceous :: Violaceous (a.) Resembling violets in color; bluish purple.

Purple :: Purple (n.) Hence: Imperial sovereignty; royal rank, dignity, or favor; loosely and colloquially, any exalted station; great wealth..

Poly-mountain :: Poly-mountain (n.) The Bartsia alpina, a low purple-flowered herb of Europe..

Petechiae :: Petechiae (n. pl.) Small crimson, purple, or livid spots, like flea-bites, due to extravasation of blood, which appear on the skin in malignant fevers, etc..

Amaranth :: Amaranth (n.) A color inclining to purple.

Ianthina :: Ianthina (n.) Any gastropod of the genus Ianthina, of which various species are found living in mid ocean; -- called also purple shell, and violet snail..

Purples :: Purples (pl. ) of Purpl.

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