| 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 |
purple martin
Progne subis | large North American martin of which the male is blue-black |
onychophoran
velvet worm
peripatus | any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms |
| purple gallinule | gallinules with showy purplish plumage |
| velvet ant | a solitary wasp of the family Mutillidae, the body has a coat of brightly colored velvety hair and the females are wingless |
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 |
| velvet | a silky densely piled fabric with a plain back |
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 |
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 |
love-lies-bleeding
velvet flower
tassel flower Amaranthus caudatus | young leaves widely used as leaf vegetables, seeds used as cereal |
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 |
Texas purple spike
Hexalectris warnockii | orchid with slender nearly leafless reddish-brown stems with loose racemes of reddish-brown flowers, of open brushy woods of southeastern Arizona and central Texas |
velvet bent
velvet bent grass
brown bent
Rhode Island bent
dog bent
Agrostis canina | common grass with slender stems and narrow leaves |
velvet grass
Yorkshire fog
Holcus lanatus | tall European perennial grass having a velvety stem, naturalized in United States and used for forage |
mascarene grass
Korean velvet grass
Zoysia tenuifolia | Asiatic creeping perennial grass, introduced in southern United States as a droughtesistant lawn grass |
velvetleaf velvet-leaf velvetweed
Indian mallow butter-print
China jute
Abutilon theophrasti | tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber, naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States |
purple poppy mallow
Callirhoe involucrata | hairy perennial of central United States having round deeply lobed leaves and loose panicles of large crimson-purple or cherryed flowers |
tree mallow
velvetleaf velvet-leaf Lavatera arborea | arborescent perennial shrub having palmately lobed furry leaves and showy red-purple flowers, southwestern United States |
purple heather
Brewer's mountain heather
Phyllodoce breweri | semi-prostrate evergreen herb of western United States |
copper beech
purple beech
Fagus sylvatica atropunicea
Fagus purpurea
Fagus sylvatica purpurea | variety of European beech with shining purple or copperolored leaves |
purple loosestrife
spiked loosestrife
Lythrum salicaria | marsh herb with a long spike of purple flowers, originally of Europe but now rampant in eastern United States |
cattley guava
purple strawberry guava
Psidium cattleianum
Psidium littorale longipes | small tropical shrubby tree bearing deep red oval fruit |
granadilla purple granadillo
Passiflora edulis | Brazilian passionflower cultivated for its deep purple fruit |
purple trillium
red trillium birthroot
Trillium erectum | trillium of eastern North America having malodorous pink to purple flowers and an astringent root used in folk medicine especially to ease childbirth |
purple milk vetch
Astragalus danicus | perennial of southern and western Europe having dense racemes of purple or violet flowers |
hovea
purple pea | any of several attractive evergreen shrubs of Australia grown for their glossy deep green foliage and flowers in rich blues and intense violets |
cowage velvet bean
Bengal bean
Benghal bean
Florida bean
Mucuna pruriens utilis
Mucuna deeringiana
Mucuna aterrima
Stizolobium deeringiana | the annual woody vine of Asia having long clusters of purplish flowers and densely hairy pods, cultivated in southern United States for green manure and grazing |
purple locoweed
purple loco
Oxytropis lambertii | tufted locoweed of southwestern United States having purple or pink to white flowers |