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Purplish
Purplish meaning
Somewhat purple in colour/color.
Example sentences (16)
Melbourne's SEA LIFE aquarium partnered with the authority in July 2022 to create a breeding program for the fish, which are small and purplish-brown to yellowish-brown with a rounded head and a small mouth.
The trees decorated the sides of the road with their purplish pink blooms, similar to sweet pea flowers.
This type of jellyfish is purplish-red with long, scraggly tentacles that sting.
Iowans are purplish and contrarians with chips on their shoulders.
According to the report, the unidentified 63-year-old was healthy before coming down with a fever, trouble breathing, leg pain, and a rash of purplish-red splotches on his face and legs.
Each pack (¥116 after tax) boasts a handful of chewy treats vaguely resembling the titular food, complete with a purplish outside and yellow inside.
Mysterious “red and purplish marks with little bumps” also appeared, but were gone by the evening.
She was short and round, and every now and then she'd wear a purplish dress to class.
Fainter bluish or purplish areas may be visible between the yellow brushes (see illustration).
Fine-quality alexandrite has a green to bluish-green color in daylight (relatively blue illumination of high color temperature ), changing to a red to purplish-red color in incandescent light (relatively yellow illumination).
Fresh silver chloride, formed when silver objects are immersed for long periods in salt water, is pale yellow colored, becoming purplish on exposure to light and projects slightly from the surface of the artifact or coin.
High-voltage, low-energy discharges create filamentary multibranched discharges which are purplish-blue in colour.
In its fresh condition this protist is soft and cartilaginous, varying in color from a greenish-yellow, through red, to a dark purple or purplish-brown.
S." pins on the lapels, with a silver ring surrounding on those of enlisted members), matching trousers, and either a service cap or flight cap, all in Shade 1620, "Air Force Blue" (a darker purplish-blue).
The color of fine blue sapphires may be described as a vivid medium dark violet to purplish blue where the primary blue hue is at least 85% and the secondary hue no more than 15%, without the least admixture of a green secondary hue or a gray mask.
Tropaeolum brachyceras has convert yellow flowers with purplish markings on wiry, climbing stems.