Periwinkle vs. Violet

Periwinklenoun

Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Vinca with blue or white flowers.

Violetnoun

A bluish-purple colour.

Periwinklenoun

A color with bluish and purplish hues, somewhat light.

Violetnoun

Viola, a genus of fragrant plants with white, purple or yellow flowers.

Periwinklenoun

A mollusk of genus Littorina.

Violetnoun

Any of several plants that look like the plants of the genus Viola but are taxonomically unrelated to them.

Periwinkleadjective

Of pale bluish purple colour.

Violetadjective

Having a bluish-purple colour.

Periwinklenoun

Any small marine gastropod shell of the genus Littorina. The common European species (Littorina littorea), in Europe extensively used as food, has recently become naturalized abundantly on the American coast. See Littorina.

Violetnoun

Any plant or flower of the genus Viola, of many species. The violets are generally low, herbaceous plants, and the flowers of many of the species are blue, while others are white or yellow, or of several colors, as the pansy (Viola tricolor).

Periwinklenoun

A trailing herb of the genus Vinca.

Violetnoun

The color of a violet, or that part of the spectrum farthest from red. It is the most refrangible part of the spectrum.

Periwinklenoun

chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers

Violetnoun

In art, a color produced by a combination of red and blue in equal proportions; a bluish purple color.

Periwinklenoun

commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers

Violetnoun

Any one of numerous species of small violet-colored butterflies belonging to Lycæna, or Rusticus, and allied genera.

Periwinklenoun

small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked

Violetadjective

Dark blue, inclining to red; bluish purple; having a color produced by red and blue combined.

Periwinklenoun

edible marine gastropod

Violetnoun

any of numerous low-growing small-flowered violas

Periwinklenoun

an Old World plant with flat five-petalled, typically bluish flowers and glossy leaves. Some kinds are grown as ornamentals and some contain alkaloids used in medicine.

Violetnoun

a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum

Periwinklenoun

a purple-blue colour like that of a periwinkle flower

‘the sky was a clear periwinkle and the sun sparkled like a shiny jewel’; ‘Anne was wearing a periwinkle evening gown with small puffed sleeves’;

Violetadjective

of a color midway between red and blue

Periwinklenoun

another term for winkle