Crossword-Solution: PERIWINKLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Periwinkle | n. | Any small marine gastropod shell of the genus Littorina. The common European species (Littorina littorea), in Europe extensively used as food, has recently become naturalized abundantly on the American coast. See Littorina. |
| Periwinkle | n. | A trailing herb of the genus Vinca. |
We have 24 clues for the answer “PERIWINKLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| winkle | 1 answer |
| a marine snail; a creeping plant | 1 answer |
| Saltwater snail | 1 answer |
| Purplish-blue shade | 1 answer |
| Purple-blue shade or the flower it's named after | 1 answer |
| ALLAMANDA | 1 answer |
| BRITISH mollusc/mollusk | 2 answers |
| *Edible sea snail | 2 answers |
| periwig | 3 answers |
| __ myrtle | 5 answers |
| TROPICAL climber/climbing plant | 6 answers |
| Sea snail | 8 answers |
| Mollusk. | 9 answers |
| Snail | 10 answers |
| univalve shell | 10 answers |
| wig | 11 answers |
| BLUE COLOR | 13 answers |
| gastropod | 16 answers |
| ALICE RELATIVE | 24 answers |
| ANIL RELATIVE | 26 answers |
| AQUAMARINE RELATIVE | 40 answers |
| Flower. | 57 answers |
| Climbing Plant | 64 answers |
| tropical plant | 79 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EAERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PERIWINKLE (5)
For December, and January, and the latter part of November, you must take such things as are green all winter: holly; ivy; bays; juniper; cypress-trees; yew; pine-apple-trees; fir-trees; rosemary; lavender; periwinkle, the white, the purple, and the blue; germander; flags; orange-trees; lemon-trees; and myrtles, if they be stoved; and sweet marjoram, warm set.
Pagurus Bernhardi, in a Periwinkle Shell] That red capsicum is the foot of the animal contained in the cockleshell.
All blue, it was, blue of a wonderful shade--periwinkle, I think they call it, Her stockings were flesh-coloured and her shoes of gold: these she had taken off, the better to warm her little shining feet.
And rollicking TRAL-THE-RAL-LAH Was eaten by DOODLE-DUM-DEY, And musical DOH-REH-MI-FAH By good little TOOTLE-DUM-TEH— Exemplary TOOTLE-TUM-TEH! THE PERIWINKLE GIRL I’VE often thought that headstrong youths Of decent education, Determine all-important truths, With strange precipitation.
But, by the by, have you added any more legends to the series, since the publication of the 'Wonder-Book'?" "Many more," said Eustace; "Primrose, Periwinkle, and the rest of them, allow me no comfort of my life unless I tell them a story every day or two.
Quotes with PERIWINKLE (3)
Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8 color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64 color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64 color box, though I've got a few missing. It's okay though, because I've got some more vibrant colors like periwinkle at my disposal. I have a bit of a problem though in that I can only meet the 8 color boxes. Does anyone else have that problem? I mean there are so many different colors of life, …
Lines Written In Early Spring I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man. Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes. The birds around me hopped an…
They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1987–2021).