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Periwinkle

noun
1.
Chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers.
2.
Commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers.  Synonyms: Cape periwinkle, Catharanthus roseus, cayenne jasmine, Madagascar periwinkle, old maid, red periwinkle, rose periwinkle, Vinca rosea.
3.
Small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked.  Synonym: winkle.
4.
Edible marine gastropod.  Synonym: winkle.



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"Periwinkle" Quotes from Famous Books



... hollows in building-ground, and even for the repair of roads. A few weeks ago I passed along a road which was being treated according to the iniquity of Macadam. Over the broken stones had been shot, to consolidate them, a complex of ashes, cabbage-leaves, egg and periwinkle shells, straw, potato-parings, a dead kitten (over which a few carrion-flies were hovering), and other promiscuous nuisances. The road in question, be it remarked, is highly "respectable," if not ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 303 - October 22, 1881 • Various
... able to help laughing. He must have looked like a periwinkle stuck in his shell. Go and tell him you're ...
— The Queen's Scarlet - The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne • George Manville Fenn


Words linked to "Periwinkle" :   herbaceous plant, genus Catharanthus, Catharanthus, seafood, myrtle, Littorina, genus Vinca, subshrub, Vinca, suffrutex, herb, Vinca minor, genus Littorina, seasnail, Vinca major


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