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| alfalfa |
a plant with purple flowers that is grown as food for cattle and horses. Alfalfa is a member of the legume family of plants. |
| alligator flag |
any of a family of large, broad-leafed, tropical, aquatic plants that usually grow up to six feet tall and have heavy blooms of delicate blue and purple flowers. |
| amaranth |
a plant having coarse leaves and bearing purple, green, or red clusters of small flowers, often grown as a food crop. [1/3 definitions] |
| amethyst |
a purple gem used in jewelry. Amethyst is a kind of quartz. |
| anemone |
a type of plant related to the buttercup that has large white, blue, purple, or red flowers. |
| assai2 |
a small slender palm tree native to Brazil that bears edible fleshy purple fruit. [1/2 definitions] |
| aster |
a plant with white, pink, blue, or purple flowers. The flowers are made up of many narrow petals around a yellow center. |
| aubergine |
the British word for eggplant, a plant grown for its dark purple, oval fruit. Aubergine is eaten as a vegetable. |
| bittersweet |
a climbing vine found in Eurasia, bearing purple flowers and poisonous reddish orange berries. [1/5 definitions] |
| blackberry |
a dark purple or black berry that is made up of many large seeds. [1/2 definitions] |
| black raspberry |
a prickly shrub that grows in eastern North America and bears a dark purple berry. [1/2 definitions] |
| Boston ivy |
a woody climbing vine of Asian origin, commonly grown in the United States as an exterior wall cover, that has three-lobed leaves and bears purple berries. |
| bougainvillea |
any of several woody vines of the American tropics that have small inconspicuous flowers surrounded by bright red, orange, or purple bracts. |
| bruise |
an injury that does not cause a break in the skin or bone but usually causes a dark blue or purple mark to appear on the skin. [1/3 definitions] |
| buckthorn |
any of various thorny trees or shrubs that bear small greenish flowers and purple berries. [1/2 definitions] |
| burdock |
any of various weeds bearing purple flowers and burs. |
| cabbage |
a vegetable with large green or purple leaves that form a round head. |
| candytuft |
any of several annual plants that bear tufted flowers of white, red, or purple. |
| carmine |
a reddish purple pigment made from cochineal. [2 definitions] |
| cherry |
a small, round fruit that grows on a tree. It is red, yellow, or purple in color and has a hard pit in the center. [1/4 definitions] |
| chinaberry |
a spreading tree native to Asia that bears white or purple blossoms and yellow fruit. [1/2 definitions] |
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