purplish

[US]/'pɜːplɪʃ/
[UK]/'pɝplɪʃ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. slightly tinged with purple.

Phrases & Collocations

purplish blue

Example Sentences

common scaup of North America; males have purplish heads.

European evergreen plant with white or purplish roselike winter-blooming flowers.

Hubei face on the gentle slope near the primeverosidase Baimu cuckoo, a purplish red color and pink.

the water permeability and retentiveness of purplish red feldsparthic sandstone are better than that of chestnut soil and;

orchids with leafy-bracted racemes of greenish or purplish irregular flowers.

very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree;used in preparing a purplish red dye.

bracteole narrowly linear, 2.5--4 mm.Sepals purplish blue, abaxially glabrous or nearly so;

Real-world Examples

In moon dirt, the plants were smaller and purplish, a surefire sign of stress.

Source: Crash Course Botany

A hundred or so tufty little plants, purplish green in color, were growing there in rows.

Source: 2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

The bark is smooth and purplish, in some places almost white.

Source: Yosemite

It's something about that purplish deep blue hue that does it for me every time.

Source: Kitchen Deliciousness Competition

Portia pulled at the rings on her ears until her lobes were irritated and purplish red.

Source: The heart is a lonely hunter.

And the dark purplish brown of the ploughed earth and of the bare branches is beautiful too.

Source: Adam Bede (Volume 3)

Coarctation of the aorta and a bicuspid aortic valve can cause lower extremity cyanosis, meaning a bluish or purplish discoloration of the lower limbs, and can result in congestive heart failure.

Source: Osmosis - Genetics

London was soon far behind them, replaced by neat green fields which gave way in turn to wide, purplish moors, villages with tiny toy churches, and a great city alive with cars like multicolored ants.

Source: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Long is Britain's best-known Land Artist and his Stone Circle, a perfect ring of purplish rocks from Portishead beach laid out on the gallery floor, represents the elegant, rarefied side of the form.

Source: 2023 Graduate School Entrance Examination English II

It was the sort of room to get on its occupant's nerves at any time, with its red plush arm-chairs, its black walnut bed, and its walnut center table inlaid with an apoplectic slab of purplish marble.

Source: Medium-rare steak

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