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Что (кто) такое periwinkle - определение

WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Periwinkle (herb); Periwinkle (botany); Periwinkle (plant); Perrywinkle; Perriwinkle; Periwinkle (disambiguation); Periwinkles

periwinkle         
(periwinkles)
1.
Periwinkle is a plant that grows along the ground and has blue flowers.
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2.
Periwinkles are small sea snails that can be eaten.
= winkle
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periwinkle         
periwinkle1
¦ noun a plant with flat five-petalled flowers and glossy leaves, some kinds of which contain alkaloids used in medicine. [Genera Vinca and Catharanthus.]
Origin
OE peruince, from late L. pervinca, reinforced in ME by Anglo-Norman Fr. pervenke.
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periwinkle2
¦ noun another term for winkle.
Origin
C16: of unknown origin.
Periwinkle         
·noun A trailing herb of the genus Vinca.
II. Periwinkle ·noun 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.

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Periwinkle

Periwinkle may refer to:

Примеры употребления для periwinkle
1. His wife, Silda, stood next to him in her pretty periwinkle jacket and tasteful pearls.
2. Television was not introduced until the 1'80s, and local menus feature dishes such as periwinkle pie.
3. Camilla wore a periwinkle dress and a brown tweed overcoat and a broach, along with pearls and pearl drop earrings.
4. Violinist Jennifer Koh played Bach‘s Partita in D Minor and seagulls wailed and the faint tint of dawn lit the periwinkle horizon.
5. "Twenty years ago we didn‘t know the rosy periwinkle from Madagascar would reduce childhood leukemia to the extent that it has," said Smith.