purplish-green
5.4
A green color with a purple tint
- adjective
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verde purpúreo
- Roy, shirt open and trousers pushed down almost to his crotch, looks in the mirror at purplish-green bruises on his stomach.
Examples
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The purplish-green, puckered foliage of Catlin's Giant ajuga complements the cool color scheme.
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Those purplish-green vines I mentioned before were everywhere; so were dense shrubs and a million varieties of weeds.
Fiction book (1991) -
It was crudely formed, rough-edged, lopsided, and glazed a strange purplish-green, but there was something of kestrelness about it.
Fiction book (1993) -
The small purplish-green blossoms appear in early summer on two-foot stalks.
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The succulent, purplish-green leaves range from 1/2 to two inches long.
Synonyms
purple-green
vspurplish-green
4.8
Green with a purple shade
has same color meaning but uses the -ish adjective form
Antonyms
How Purple
Surface Forms
purplish-green positive
Morphology
Etymology
Purplish-green is a simple color compound made of purple + -ish meaning 'somewhat' + green, so it describes a green color that has a touch of purple.