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Definition of Purplish
1. Adjective. Of a color intermediate between red and blue.
Definition of Purplish
1. a. Somewhat purple.
Definition of Purplish
1. Adjective. Somewhat purple in colour/color. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Purplish
1. somewhat purple [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purplish
Literary usage of Purplish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"... otherwise glabrous: peduncle glabrous: perianth spreading, star-shaped, purplish
or reddish with an oblong-lanceolate black blotch without yellow border ..."
2. The British Noctuae and Their Varieties by James William Tutt (1892)
"The ground colour deep purplish-red or red- brown, with the basal area slightly
slaty or glaucous as in the type, to the central transverse shade, ..."
3. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the by Francis Walker, John Edward Gray (1861)
"Fore wings with a purplish n>sy straight very oblique band, which forms a very
acute angle with the exterior border, the surface elsewhere mostly overspread ..."
4. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"... of the involucre 20 to 30 distinct, subulate-acuminate ; accessory ones small
and subulate : rays little surpassing the disk orange or turning purplish. ..."
5. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"The leaves l ot several have a deep rose or purplish i tint, and are used for dyes.
One of these i species is A. rosea, from which я purplish colour is ..."
6. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871), Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1904)
"There is a purplish terminal line composed of shallow lunules, ... Fringes pale
at base, purplish outwardly, cut with paler at termination of veins, ..."
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