Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
purple-heart .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
purpleheart .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
purpleheart tree
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Examples
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Around the rusty sleigh, mounted on its huge platform of purplewood, five Earthmen were staging a battle royal with a spinie.
Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories Greenberg, Martin H. 1990
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On the mound of raised dirt in the front of the room'dark with the smoky dimness of burning purplewood torches fetid to boot'sat Commander Scott Pelham and five of his men.
Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories Greenberg, Martin H. 1990
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There were fifty of them in the low purplewood structure that was their "meeting hall."
Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories Greenberg, Martin H. 1990
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