How To Use Purplish In A Sentence

The flowers are purplish-pink, with five petals, and the ovary usually has three styles.
You may have to encourage the seeds to detach from the pith quite vigorously, but you end up with a very munchy pile of purplish nibbles. Culinary adventures
[Footnote: On investigating the calorescence produced by rays transmitted through glasses of various colours, it was found that in the case of certain specimens of blue glass, the platinum foil glowed with a pink or purplish light. Fragments of science, V. 1-2
Later on in the year the dark rusty heleniums will contrast with the taller purplish veronicastrum. Times, Sunday Times
Eggs three or four, rosy or faint purplish white, thickly sprinkled with specks and spots of darker rufescent purple or claret colour. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1

At 11:15 I could attend a tanzanite seminar given by the nice man in the jewelry shop who no doubt wants to tempt us to buy a bauble but I had bought myself one of those purplish-blue stones as a special gift to myself in Tanzania, shortly after my husband died eight years ago. Lea Lane: Sailing On The Cheap Aboard A Repositioning Cruise
Their flowers range from deep carmine-red through mid-blue to purplish-pink and even beetroot, before giving way to fluffy, hair-like seed heads.
It is one of the first shrubs to blossom, the staminate flowers hanging in slender, graceful yellowish-brown catkins, while the pistillate flowers are little points of purplish-red protruding from the buds. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919
And it doesn't hurt that the drink's name also allows for the employment of a stock joke that turns on the fact that most people hear "slow" rather than "sloe" -- the purplish-red berry of the blackthorn bush that gives the liqueur its flavor. No Kidding, It's Good
Ugly purplish bruises were already splotching her wrist.
The _inflorescence_ consists of two to eight smooth, digitate, green or purplish spikes, 1 to 3 inches long; _rachis_ is slender, compressed or angular, scaberulous. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The flowers are produced in terminal clusters, one large flower being surrounded by a whorl of smaller ones; they are of a rich purplish-blue inside the corolla, which is rotate; the segments (mitre-shaped) and the spaces between are prettily furnished with a feathery fringe; the wide tube is also finely striped inside; the calyx is tubular, having long awl-shaped segments; the stems are procumbent, firm (almost woody), short jointed, and thickest near the top. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
More than one minute in the toner causes the prints to turn an unpleasant purplish color.
The fossil bone was almost the same color as the stone, though I recall the unweathered parts being purplish and the more weathered surfaces being almost white. One of those WoW things.
Across one large wall, a purplish strand of smoke pulsated and contracted, cohering into a monstrous head.
The only fish we got were some torsk and halibut, which were chiefly brought by the natives to sell; and we caught a few sculpins about the ship, with some purplish star-fish, that had seventeen or eighteen rays. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16
The infection has been linked to an increased risk of porphyria cutanea tarda which may cause a blistering rash and to cryoglobulinaemia which may cause a purplish rash on the lower extremities and may lead to kidney damage. Vanguard News
Of course, I know that an odour of peach-blossom in the air, resulting in death, could only be associated with some vaporous effluvium of cyanogen, or of hydrocyanic ( 'prussic') acid, or of both; and when I at last managed to examine some of the dust under the microscope, I was not therefore surprised to find, among the general mass of purplish ash, a number of bright-yellow particles, which could only be minute crystals of potassic ferrocyanide. The Purple Cloud
She notes that lime-green to purplish-green modified fluorite octahedra have been found at this pegmatite.
Nori, dark green to purplish black, doesn't only come in sheets for sushi.
A purplish, long, vaguely cylindrical ship shot up into the air, and rammed him full broadside.
If you're looking for a medium-sized bush for borders, four-foot-tall Madame Isaac Pereire, a blowsy Bourbon rose with arching canes full of opulent purplish-pink flowers is deliciously fragrant and reblooms throughout the summer.
The eggs are usually three in number, of a rosy or purplish white, sprinkled over rather numerously with deep claret or rufescent purple specks and spots. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
The so-called "almandine" garnets (those of purplish-red tint) do not equal the true ruby in brightness of color and when held up to the light show more prismatic colors than the true ruby, owing to the greater dispersion of garnet. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
The leaves of the root are large and pedate, the divisions wide apart and unevenly toothed; the under sides are distinctly veined with purplish-brown when in a young state. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
Color A moderate to vivid purplish red.
You need something a bit stronger for your garden, like the flower spikes from Salvia nemorosa ‘Superba’, with wonderfully intense lavender blue flowers issuing from purplish bracts, or some of the deep wine-red sidalceas.
A moderate to vivid purplish red.
Bronchoscopic examination performed within 1 day or 2 days of menses disclosed multiple purplish-red submucosal patches bilaterally that bled easily when touched.
It is an evergreen or semi-evergreen multi-stemmed shrub with lance shaped leaves that are purplish when young and flushed with colour in autumn.
Six long, spindly, purplish-black legs, thick like the boles of sapling trees, sprang forth and hauled up the rest of the foul thing.
Anger filled him anew as he reached a tentative hand to touch the purplish bruise on her ivory cheek where the other man had slapped her - that dirty no-good; I ought to go back and tear him apart, how dare he hurt her!
He is being worn purplish blue shirt, show pleasant smiles.
The _spikelets_ are rather small, narrow, greenish or purplish, 1/15 inch long or less, the rachilla is slender, produced to about half the length of the spikelet behind the palea. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
She waved her hand yet again and opened a purplish rift in the air that glowed with uncertainty.
They both have a vaguely similar purplish look to their front pages.
She is often described as "the most beautiful woman in the world," but she looks more like a doll on my shelf: short, shoulder-length jet hair, purplish eyes, paperwhite skin. Lea Lane: Post-Oscar Fun: Drama Queens I've Encountered
Flowers are purplish-pink in colour and are hypogynous.
Sterile catkins 3-4 inches long, slender, purplish-yellow; scales fringed: fertile catkins erect or suberect, sessile or nearly so, 1/2-1 inch long, oblong-cylindrical; bracts pubescent; lateral lobes wider than in _B. lutea. Handbook of the Trees of New England
Pretty clouds are being bruised purplish over mountains by the gathering rush of night.
The so-called almandine garnets of the jeweler are frequently of the almandite class and tend to purplish red. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
The raucous viridian calls attention to the refined greenery of the garden, and in contrast the grave sound of the purplish nettles, in the foreground, orchestrate the simple poem.
Stem purplish green arising from a globose yellowish white scaly tuber (occasionally with short protrusions) to 5 cm across and about 6-12 cm below the soil surface. Chapter 7
The profiteroles I sampled were soggy, and the purplish lavender crème brûlée tasted a little too much like bath soap.
When choosing beef fillet, the outer flesh should be a bright, purplish-red colour laced with thin streaks of white fat.
His face was purplish and he looked quite ready to explode.
My room has dark green walls and a bluish brownish purplish carpet.
Our main sign is most often a wiry and choppy pulse, and congested purplish veins in the inner eye lids.
And luxuriant foliage is no longer just apple green but ranges from purplish blue to green splashed with white.
The flowers are produced in terminal clusters, one large flower being surrounded by a whorl of smaller ones; they are of a rich purplish-blue inside the corolla, which is rotate; the segments (mitre-shaped) and the spaces between are prettily furnished with a feathery fringe; the wide tube is also finely striped inside; the calyx is tubular, having long awl-shaped segments; the stems are procumbent, firm (almost woody), short jointed, and thickest near the top. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
At his nether lip begins a dark purplish bruise that spreads to a little lower down almost reaching his chin.
= From the French _prunelle_, which means plum, a stout worsted material named from its color, which is a purplish shade similar to that of a ripe plum. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades
The ground was fairly free of undergrowth, the anemones sprinkled, there was a bush or two, elder, or guelder-rose, and a purplish tangle of bramble: the old russet of bracken almost vanished under green anemone ruffs. Lady Chatterley's Lover
Soon after a cream-colored bell-flower begins to nod from a tall, slender stalk; another of sky-blue soon opens beside it; beneath these a little five-petaled flower of deep pink tries to outshine the blossoms of the alfileria; and above them soon stands the radiant shooting-star, with reflexed petals of white, yellow, and pink shining behind its purplish ovaries. Our Italy
Orchids there use their purplish pink flowers and strong scent to dupe queen bumblebees (the orchids' main pollinators in Sweden) into thinking the plants harbor nectar.
The result is a purplish red discoloration known as lividity, or livor mortis, on the body’s “down” side. 206 BONES
Most of the unit is composed of intercalations of differently coloured, pervasively foliated, purplish red or bluish grey varicoloured calcareous shales.
This is a really attractive plant with dark purplish, green, crinkled leaves and sweet smelling lilac purple flowers, it is well worth growing.
However, it has broadly expanded and sometimes minutely denticulate bases of the median staminal filaments, distinctly 2-lobed stigmas, accumbent cotyledons, white flowers with purplish petal claws, and strongly divided leaves.
The second, a methane-blue sphere with a fluid, coruscated surface, from which smaller, seedlike purplish spheres were escaping like solar flares, identified itself as bubonic plague. CATALYST OF SORROWS
The young leaves are purplish-green, and form a curious contrast to the deep lurid hue of the older foliage; especially when the tree is (which often occurs) dimidiate, one half the green, and the other the red shades of colours; when in full blossom, all forms a mass of yellow, diffusing Himalayan Journals — Complete
Definitely sounds like gentianella is 'a dwarf gentian', by extension a purplish blue color, and so might apply to a derivative of a bluestocking in the female sense. Sorry Her Lot Who Loves Too Well - A Dress A Day
Blue hair is seen in workers in cobalt mines and indigo works; green hair in copper smelters; deep red-brown hair in handlers of crude anilin; and the hair is dyed a purplish-brown whenever chrysarobin applications used on a scalp come in contact with an alkali, as when washed with soap. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Her passionate features, well-defined, firm, and statuesque in life, were doubly so now: her mouth and brow, beneath her purplish black hair, showed only too clearly that the turbulency of character which had made a bear-garden of his house had been no temporary phase of her existence. Wessex Tales
There are also creams available at make up counters that reduce the look of red or purplish marks (it is usually green or purple in the bottle).
It is a pretty purplish white, tetradynamous plant, which blows from The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare
Any of various plants of the genus Thalictrum, having compound leaves and clusters of small white, yellowish, or purplish apetalous flowers.
Indeed the roses made of purplish painted aluminium foil have a sick irradiated glow.
= -- Cones upon dwarf branches, erect or inclining upwards, ovoid to cylindrical, 1/2-3/4 of an inch long, purplish or reddish brown while growing, light brown at maturity, persistent for at least a year; scales thin, obtuse to truncate; edge entire, minutely toothed or erose; seeds small, winged. Handbook of the Trees of New England
All of those leaves create tons of shadows, and the radicchio is a deep purplish brown to begin with. BitterSweet
The _spikelets_ are about 1/16 inch long, ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate dark or pale green, sometimes purplish, solitary or two to four on long slender pedicels, drooping, never appressed, and with glandular streaks. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
He is being worn purplish blue shirt, show pleasant smiles.
Loganberries display a purplish dark red colon Their flavor is slightly tart and very distinctive, which makes them useful for winemaking.
Loganberries display a purplish dark red colon Their flavor is slightly tart and very distinctive, which makes them useful for winemaking.
It was more like a blossom unfolding, creamy yellow at the center, purplish at the edges. THE LONGEST WAY HOME
The bird life was so rich and varied there seemed no end to new kinds, and they lived not in ones and twos but in thousands upon thousands: tiny green-and-yellow parakeets Fee used to call lovebirds, but which the locals called budgerigars; scarlet-and-blue smallish parrots called rosellas; big pale-grey parrots with brilliant purplish-pink breasts, underwings and heads, called galahs; and the great pure white birds with cheeky yellow combs called sulphur-crested cockatoos. The Thorn Birds
Upper parts umber-brown, tinged with yellowish green, especially on the rump; crown shaded with purplish brown; superciliary streak white; throat, sides of the neck, breast, and upper part of abdomen delicate vinous brown; sides of the body, flanks, and thighs dull lemon-yellow; inner lining of wings pure yellow.
The _spikes_ are 7 to 10 inches, alternate, pale green or purplish, rather distant, spreading or suberect A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
You wake to find a wet snow has sneaked in after midnight wrapping the branches with an airy gauze, spangled with diamonds so that every snarly twig and tendril is an epiphany of white etched against the purplish-blue of an undecided sky. Alice d’alessio | three poems « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
When her gaze skated past mine, I noticed purplish half-moons under her eyes.
With the artist as a guide, Henry also learned to savor the infinity of violets in the clouds above the luminous sea which was “butterfly blue,” according to La Farge, the purplish-rose of bougainvillaea blossoms, the brilliance of the lemons, and the “fiercely green” acacia. The Five of Hearts
The inscriptions are replete with complimentary titles and laudatory sentiments and are finely enameled in the purplish gray background characteristic of wares made for him.
The opium poppy is an annual herb with an erect stem, having a solitary flower that is white, red, or purplish, depending on the cultivar.
There were eight pools of waste water, in which purplish-reddish liquid was churning.
Young reds will be purplish at the rim - as they age this becomes red, mahogany and eventually brown.
LinuxPlanet goes into more detail about the changes coming to the Ubuntu desktop, reporting that the traditionally brown-colored interface will be replaced with a "aubergine" purplish look. Tom's hardware UK
I could tell because there were a couple of wisps of purplish smoke wafting around the light fixtures a minute after I said it.
He has pinpointed markers signaling the presence of an unwanted, purplish color in wheatgrasses caused by the pigment anthocyanin.
In this specimen, limonite (an iron oxide) contributes to the bright central arc, while fine spherules of hematite (another iron oxide) suffuse the quartz with a purplish hue.
She still had long hair, though the black had turned purplish like the new dark bottle on the bathroom sill. LOST CHILDREN
The lifts had closed, the punters had gone, the domain was ours and a lambent, purplish light settled on the silent mountain.
He has a purplish birthmark on his cheek.
Varieties with bluish or purplish leaves are hardier than those with greener leaves.
In that place of darkness and great light, of absolutes and essences that are far removed from the stippled, reddish, purplish hurts of this existence, divine justice shines through. In the Valley of the Shadow
The flowers appear in racemes arising in whorls on the terminal part of the stems and are labiates, bilaterally symmetrical and purplish in color.
Still no hint of that strange, tell-tale purplish taste in her mouth. GRACE
The color of rubies varies from the deepest to the palest red, all having more or less of a purplish tinge, which is more plainly perceived in the deeper colored specimens than in the paler ones. A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition.
The paint on the woodwork was everywhere a dark, purplish chocolate. TESTIMONIES
Delphinium viridescens most closely resembles Delphinium multiplex, but may be distinguished using the following characters: Delphinium viridescens is typically 3-5 feet tall; sepals are iridescent purplish-yellow or greenish-yellow; and in some instances, the degree of basal and cauline leaf dissection has been observed to be greater in Delphinium viridescens, although immature specimens of Delphinium viridescens and Delphinium multiplex cannot readily be distinguished on this character. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
His eyes seemed to shine in the purplish twilight.
Great fleecy clouds, floating across the azure sky, sent purplish shadows wandering in the valleys over which the road lay like a fragile ribbon of granite.
Deep purplish red, this full - bodied wine has a favour of complex herb and oak.
While many of the other plants in South Dakota haven't even turned green, the pasque flower is peaking above the snow, with its white, pink, or purplish, tulip-like blossoms already open.
The pyrope garnets are, as the name literally implies, of fire red color, as a rule, but they also may be purplish in color. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
When the Pope leads Mass at the newly complete altar - made, as part of Bonet's design, from a purplish stone called porphyry - 6,500 faithful, including 1,000 priests, will pray with him. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion

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