Color Names

Periwinkle

Blue as the five-petaled flowers, and the shells that the snails leave behind.

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Periwinkle is a bright blue, close to periwinkle.

It can be described as bright, vivid, brilliant and glowing.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Periwinkle

Littorinidae

The Littorinidae are a taxonomic family of over 200 species of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the order Littorinimorpha, commonly known as periwinkles and found worldwide.

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Common periwinkle

The common periwinkle or winkle is a species of small whelk or sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc that has gills and an operculum, and is classified within the family Littorinidae, the periwinkles.

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Periwinkle (color)

Periwinkle is a color in the blue and violet family. Its name is derived from the lesser periwinkle or myrtle herb which bears flowers of the same color.

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periwinkle

Noun

  1. Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Vinca with blue or white flowers. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  2. Similar plants of genus Catharanthus.

Adjective

  1. Of pale bluish purple colour.
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