Purplish: alternatives and connections

A color inclining to purple.

A variety of crystallized quartz, of a purple or bluish violet color, of different shades. It is much used as a jeweler's stone.

A genus of leguminous shrubs, having long clusters of purple flowers; false or bastard indigo.

A genus of marine mollusks of the order Tectibranchiata; the sea hare. Some of the species when disturbed throw out a deep purple liqu…

To tinge or dye with a purple color.

A valuable ore of copper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur; -- also called purple copper ore (or erubescite), in allusion to the c…

A genus of showy herbaceous or shrubby plants, brought from South America; slipperwort. It has a yellow or purple flower, often spotte…

A small and beautiful species of orchid, having a flower variegated with purple, pink, and yellow. It grows in cold and wet localities…

A rich red or crimson color with a shade of purple.

A brownish purple pigment, obtained by the action of some compounds of tin upon certain salts of gold. It is used in painting and stai…

Its delicious fruit, which is succulent, dark purple, and similar to the custard apple of the West Indies.

Somewhat cinereous; of a color somewhat resembling that of wood ashes.

The earth alumina, as found native in a crystalline state, including sapphire, which is the fine blue variety; the oriental ruby, or r…

A powder of a violet red color, difficult to moisten with water, used for making violet or purple dye. It is prepared from certain spe…

A slight admixture, infusion, or adulteration; a partial overspreading; as, wine with a dash of water; red with a dash of purple.

An American genus (Rhexia) of perennial herbs, with opposite leaves, and showy flowers (usually bright purple), with four petals and e…

The dried leaves of the purple foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), used in heart disease, disturbance of the circulation, etc.

To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to impurple.