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Periwinkle   Listen
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Periwinkle  n.  (Zool.) 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. Note: In America the name is often applied to several large univalves, as Fulgur carica, and Fulgur canaliculata.






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"Periwinkle" Quotes from Famous Books



... breakfast of cold rabbit and dry bread, washed down by a draught of pure water carried in a tin porringer from a spring which bubbled out of the bank hard by—a spring that was half hidden by the feathery moss, trailing periwinkle, and brown fern fronds with which it was surrounded. The children breakfasted heartily, their early outing having sharpened their appetites; but Bambo's eating was only a pretence, for he was not hungry. Joan was a fairly solid weight for a girl of five, and he had carried ...
— Two Little Travellers - A Story for Girls • Frances Browne Arthur

... trumpets, as great men are upon the stage, without which it is impossible now-a-days to know a great man from a little one. However, the hired attendants did their duty, and the name of Fizzybelli was fizzed about the room in every direction. Dr Plausible trod on the corns of old Lady G—-, upset Miss Periwinkle, and nearly knocked down a French savant, in his struggle to obtain the door to receive his honoured guest, who made a bow, looked at the crowd—looked at the chandelier—looked at his watch, and looked very tired in the course of five minutes, when Prince Fizzybelli ordered his carriage, ...
— Newton Forster - The Merchant Service • Captain Frederick Marryat



Words linked to "Periwinkle" :   Vinca major, subshrub, seafood, Vinca rosea, myrtle, Catharanthus roseus, genus Littorina, suffrutex, periwinkle plant derivative, Vinca, genus Vinca, seasnail, Catharanthus, herb, cayenne jasmine, old maid, Vinca minor, red periwinkle, Littorina, Cape periwinkle, Madagascar periwinkle



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