Usually means: Small, edible sea snails, gastropods.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. periwinkles: Merriam-Webster
  2. periwinkles: Collins English Dictionary
  3. periwinkles: Vocabulary.com
  4. Periwinkles, periwinkles: Wordnik
  5. periwinkles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. periwinkles: Wiktionary
  7. periwinkles: Dictionary.com
  8. periwinkles: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. periwinkles: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. periwinkles: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. periwinkles: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. periwinkles: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Culinary Cafe (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (periwinkle)

noun:  Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Vinca with blue or white flowers.
noun:  Similar plants of genus Catharanthus.
noun:  A color with bluish and purplish hues, somewhat light.
adjective:  Of pale bluish purple colour.
noun:  A mollusk of family Littorinidae.
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