Definitions
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- adjective having purple flowers
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Examples
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Mike went to where Sara was sitting, her lap full of wire and long stalks of purple-flowered stems.
Scarlet Nights Jude Deveraux 2010
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A characteristic showy tree of this region is the purple-flowered Physocalymma scaberrima, a hardwood timber tree with red wood popular in making furniture.
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Mike went to where Sara was sitting, her lap full of wire and long stalks of purple-flowered stems.
Scarlet Nights Jude Deveraux 2010
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Mike went to where Sara was sitting, her lap full of wire and long stalks of purple-flowered stems.
Scarlet Nights Jude Deveraux 2010
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A characteristic emergent tree of this ecoregion is the purple-flowered Physocalymma scaberrim, a hardwood timber tree with red wood popular in making furniture.
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Conspicuous are the aromatic narrow-leaved white-flowered Labrador-tea Ledum palustre ssp. decumbens and, on richer drier soils, the purple-flowered Lapland rose-bay Rhododendron lapponicum.
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We found on the banks of this river, a purple-flowered CALANDRINIA, previously unknown. 44 Lat.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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In the sandy soil, grew the purple-flowered CHLOANTHES
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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We saw, this day, plants of PYCNOSORUS GLOBOSUS, in the dry forest land; and the purple-flowered RUELLIA AUSTRALIS.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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Fluttery fingers reached up to her iron gray coif, then drifted down to her matronly purple-flowered bosom.
Too Many Bosses Freed, Jan 1995
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