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- noun Plural form of
periwinkle .
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Examples
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Common marsh snails such as periwinkles, coffee bean snails, and mud snails feed on detritus and are a food source for the larger animals in the marsh.
North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, South Carolina 2007
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Of other shell-fish there are ten or twelve sorts, such as periwinkles, wilks, limpets, and some very beautiful sea-ears, also another sort which stick to the weeds; with some other things, as sea-eggs, star-fish, &c. several of which are peculiar to the place.
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Plant summer annual plants that take the heat such as periwinkles, purslane, portulaca, lantana, etc.
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Plant summer annual plants that take the heat such as periwinkles, purslane, portulaca, lantana, etc.
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Plant summer annual plants that take the heat such as periwinkles, purslane, portulaca, lantana, etc.
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Plant summer annual plants that take the heat such as periwinkles, purslane, portulaca, lantana, etc.
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Plant summer annual plants that take the heat such as periwinkles, purslane, portulaca, lantana, etc.
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Plant summer annual plants that take the heat such as periwinkles, purslane, portulaca, lantana, etc.
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Plant summer annual plants that take the heat such as periwinkles, purslane, portulaca, lantana, etc.
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Clusters of tiny barnacles, mussels, periwinkles, and various species of seaweed.
"My sins my own. They belong to me, me." greygirlbeast 2010
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