Usually means: Small plant with blue flowers.
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  1. periwinkle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. periwinkle: Merriam-Webster
  3. periwinkle, periwinkle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. periwinkle, periwinkle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. periwinkle: Collins English Dictionary
  6. periwinkle: Vocabulary.com
  7. Periwinkle, periwinkle: Wordnik
  8. periwinkle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. periwinkle: Wiktionary
  10. periwinkle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. periwinkle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. periwinkle: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. periwinkle: Dictionary.com
  14. periwinkle (1), periwinkle (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Periwinkle (color), Periwinkle (colour), Periwinkle (disambiguation), Periwinkle (film), Periwinkle (mollusc), Periwinkle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Periwinkle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. periwinkle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. periwinkle: Rhymezone
  19. Periwinkle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. periwinkle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. periwinkle: FreeDictionary.org
  22. periwinkle: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. periwinkle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. periwinkle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. Periwinkle: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. Periwinkle: Health & Beauty Glossary

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  1. periwinkle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. periwinkle: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. Periwinkle (botany), periwinkle: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. periwinkle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Periwinkle: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Periwinkle: Beauty & Health Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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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