PURPLE-BLUE Synonyms

• a transparent purple variety of quartz; used as a gemstone

• of a moderate purple color

• a red transparent variety of zircon used as a gemstone

• any of numerous bulbous perennial herbs

• a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically

• deciduous subshrub of southeastern Asia having pinnate leaves and clusters of red or purple flowers; a source of indigo dye

• a blue-violet color

• having a color between blue and violet

• any of various Old World aromatic shrubs or subshrubs with usually mauve or blue flowers; widely cultivated

• a pale purple color

• of a pale purple color

• any of various plants of the genus Syringa having large panicles of usually fragrant flowers

• of a pale purple color

• a moderate purple

• of a pale to moderate greyish violet color

• chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers

• commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers

• small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked

• edible marine gastropod

• any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone

• any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit

• a highly desirable position or assignment

• exactly

• completely; used as intensifiers

• a color varying from dark purplish brown to dark red

• any of numerous low-growing violas with small flowers

• a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum

• of a color intermediate between red and blue

• of blue tinged with purple