periwinkle
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- noun
- /ˈpɛrɪˌwɪŋkəl/
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- The recipe called for periwinkles, which are known for their rich flavor and tender texture.
- periwinkles and whelks
- periwinkles and mussels
- common periwinkles
Examples
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Check out Kettle Cove, the only place I've ever seen yellow periwinkle shells!
Blog text (8) -
During our beach trip, we collected periwinkles from the rocks to include in our seafood stew.
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This is a periwinkle snail, and so is this.
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He slit a trout's belly he was about to cook amid grubs and periwinkles.
Fiction book (1997) -
You could make a few shillings on the periwinkles, and the shore was dotted with them, but, as the proverb says, they're only food for hags.
Fiction book (1997) -
For the farewell party, we bought sodas, boiled periwinkles, popsicles, moon cakes, toffees, melons, and haw jelly.
Fiction book (1995) -
Instead, he recalled something he hadn't thought about in years: a childhood vacation on Sanibel Island, where he and his brothers had spent feverishly collecting the best whelks, scallops, and periwinkles, the rare ones with the live creatures still in them.
Fiction book (1994) -
At the tide pools, we spotted many periwinkles crawling along the rocky shore.
Synonyms
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A small edible sea snail with a spiral shell
A small sea snail like a periwinkle that lives on rocky seashores
Compounds
A plant with large green and white leaves that grows along the ground in gardens
A tropical evergreen plant with thick stems and bright pink or red flowers often grown in gardens
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
Periwinkle (the sea snail) gets its name from the same old word used for the plant and its blue flowers, because the snail's small, curled shell often looks a bit like the plant's shape and colour; this 'shared name' is why the shell and the plant are both called periwinkle.