| purple bacteria | free-living Gram-negative pink to purplish-brown bacteria containing bacteriochlorophyll |
purple finch
Carpodacus purpureus | North American finch having a raspberryed head and breast and rump |
purple grackle
Quiscalus quiscula | eastern United States grackle |
tree swallow tree martin
Hirundo nigricans | of Australia and Polynesia, nests in tree cavities |
| martin | any of various swallows with squarish or slightly forked tail and long pointed wings, migrate around Martinmas |
house martin
Delichon urbica | common small European martin that builds nests under the eaves of houses |
bank martin
bank swallow
sand martin
Riparia riparia | swallow of the northern hemisphere that nests in tunnels dug in clay or sand banks |
purple martin
Progne subis | large North American martin of which the male is blue-black |
| purple gallinule | gallinules with showy purplish plumage |
banded purple
white admiral Limenitis arthemis | North American butterfly with blue-black wings crossed by a broad white band |
red-spotted purple
Limenitis astyanax | similar to the banded purple but with red spots on underwing surfaces |
purple emperor
Apatura iris | large European butterfly the male of which has wings shaded with purple |
sodium thiopental
phenobarbital
phenobarbitone
Luminal
purple heart | a long-acting barbiturate used as a sedative |
purple
purpleness | a purple color or pigment |
| Tyrian purple | a vivid purplished color |
reddish purple
royal purple | a shade of purple tinged with red |
| purple passage | a passage full of ornate and flowery language |
Order of the Purple Heart
Purple Heart | a United States military decoration awarded to any member of the armed forces who is wounded in action |
purple onion
red onion | flat mild onion having purplish tunics, used as garnish on hamburgers and salads |
Saint Martin
St. Martin
Saint Maarten
St. Maarten | an island in the western Leeward Islands, administered jointly by France and the Netherlands |
Buber
Martin Buber | Israeli religious philosopher (born in Austria), as a Zionist he promoted understanding between Jews and Arabs, his writings affected Christian thinkers as well as Jews (-) |
Charcot
Jean Martin Charcot | French neurologist who tried to use hypnotism to cure hysteria (-) |
Cline
Martin Cline | American geneticist who succeeded in transferring a functioning gene from one mouse to another (born in ) |
Frobisher
Sir Martin Frobisher | English explorer who led an expedition in search of the Northwest Passage to the orient, served under Drake and helped defeat the Spanish Armada (-) |
| Hall Charles Martin Hall | United States chemist who developed an economical method of producing aluminum from bauxite (-) |
Heidegger
Martin Heidegger | German philosopher whose views on human existence in a world of objects and on Angst influenced the existential philosophers (-) |
King Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr. | United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (-) |
Klaproth
Martin Heinrich Klaproth | German chemist who pioneered analytical chemistry and discovered three new elements (-) |
Luther
Martin Luther | German theologian who led the Reformation, believed that salvation is granted on the basis of faith rather than deeds (-) |
Martin
Dean Martin
Dino Paul Crocetti | United States singer (-) |
| Martin Mary Martin | United States actress (-) |
| Martin Steve Martin | United States actor and comedian (born in ) |
| Martin St. Martin | French bishop who is a patron saint of France (died in ) |
Martin V
Oddone Colonna | Italian pope from to whose election as pope ended the Great Schism (-) |
Scorsese
Martin Scorsese | United States filmmaker (born in ) |
Van Buren
Martin Van Buren
President Van Buren | th President of the United States (-) |
purple anise
Illicium floridanum | small shrubby tree with purple flowers, found in wet soils of southeastern United States |
purple clematis
purple virgin's bower
mountain clematis
Clematis verticillaris | climber of northeastern North America having waxy purplish-blue flowers |
red clover
purple clover
Trifolium pratense | erect to decumbent short-lived perennial having red-purple to pink flowers, the most commonly grown forage clover |
prince's-feather gentleman'sane
prince's-plume red amaranth
purple amaranth
Amaranthus cruentus
Amaranthus hybridus hypochondriacus
Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys | tall showy tropical American annual having hairy stems and long spikes of usually red flowers above leaves deeply flushed with purple, seeds often used as cereal |
purple cress
Cardamine douglasii | small perennial herb of cooler regions of North America with racemose purple flowers |
| late purple aster | a variety of aster |
| purple-stemmed aster | a variety of aster |
Joe-Pye weed purple boneset
trumpet weed
marsh milkweed
Eupatorium purpureum | North American herb having whorled leaves and terminal clusters of flowers spotted with purple |
velvet plant purple velvet plant
royal velvet plant
Gynura aurantiaca | Javanese foliage plant grown for their handsome velvety leaves with violet-purple hairs |
male orchis
early purple orchid
Orchis mascula | Eurasian orchid with showy pink or purple flowers in a loose spike |
showy orchis
purple orchis
purple-hooded orchis
Orchis spectabilis | North American orchid having a spike of violet-purple flowers mixed with white, sepals and petals form a hood |
| purple-fringed orchid purple-fringed orchis Habenaria fimbriata | North American orchid similar to Habenaria psycodes with larger paler flowers |
purple fringeless orchid
purple fringeless orchis
Habenaria peramoena | orchid of northeastern and alpine eastern North America closely related to the purple fringed orchids but having rosy-purple or violet flowers with denticulate leaf divisions |
| purple-fringed orchid purple-fringed orchis Habenaria psycodes | North American orchid with clusters of fragrant purple fringed flowers |