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ALFALFA |
Plant with purple flowers |
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VIOLET |
Plant with bluish-purple flowers |
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LUCERN |
A leguminous plant (Medicago sativa), having bluish purple
cloverlike flowers, cultivated for fodder; -- called also alfalfa. |
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SOLDIERWOOD |
A showy leguminous plant (Calliandra purpurea) of the
West Indies. The flowers have long tassels of purple stamens. |
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MORNING-GLORY |
A climbing plant (Ipomoea purpurea) having handsome,
funnel-shaped flowers, usually red, pink, purple, white, or variegated,
sometimes pale blue. See Dextrorsal. |
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GROUNDNUT |
A leguminous, twining plant (Apios tuberosa), producing
clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant
to the taste. |
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MAHON STOCK |
An annual cruciferous plant with reddish purple or white
flowers (Malcolmia maritima). It is called in England Virginia stock,
but the plant comes from the Mediterranean. |
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PIMPERNEL |
A plant of the genus Anagallis, of which one species (A.
arvensis) has small flowers, usually scarlet, but sometimes purple,
blue, or white, wh... |
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PANSY |
A plant of the genus Viola (V. tricolor) and its blossom,
originally purple and yellow. Cultivated varieties have very large
flowers of a great... |
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ORPINE |
A low plant with fleshy leaves (Sedum telephium), having
clusters of purple flowers. It is found on dry, sandy places, and on
old walls, in Eng... |