Words starting with purplefo
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- purple book — 1. (publication) The "System V Interface Definition". The covers of the first editions were an amazingly nauseating shade of off-lavender. 2. (publication) The Wizard Book. See also book titles.
- purple wire — (jargon, hardware) Wire installed by IBM Field Engineers to work around problems discovered during testing or debugging. These are called "purple wires" even when (as is frequently the case) they are yellow. Compare blue wire, yellow wire, and red wire.
- purple — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
- purple beech — copper beech.
- purple boneset — joe-pye weed (def 1).
- purple chokeberry — See under chokeberry (def 1).
- purple emperor — any of several Old World nymphalid butterflies of the genus Apatura, esp A. iris, having mottled purple-and-brown wings
- purple finch — a North American finch, Carpodacus purpureus, having a raspberry-red head, breast, and rump.
- purple foxglove — a medicinal plant, Digitalis purpurea, of western Europe, having finger-shaped, spotted, purple flowers and leaves from which digitalis is obtained.