Periwinkle is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PERIWINKLE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a creeping plant with blue flowers, also PENNYWINKLE
• an Old World plant with flat five-petalled, typically bluish flowers and glossy leaves. Some kinds are grown as ornamentals and some contain alkaloids used in medicine.
• a purple-blue colour like that of a periwinkle flower
• a marine snail; a creeping plant
• Any small marine gastropod shell of the genus Littorina. The common European species (Littorina littorea), in Europe extensively used as food, has recently become naturalized abundantly on the American coast. See Littorina.
• A trailing herb of the genus Vinca.
• chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers
• commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers
• small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked
• edible marine gastropod
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• any of several trailing or woody evergreen herbs of the dogbane family; as a European creeper (Vinca minor) widely cultivated as a ground cover and for its blue or white flowers —called also myrtle; a trailing plant (Vinca major) with large blue flowers that is used as a ground cover and in window boxes; rosy periwinkle

Words related to PERIWINKLE

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Words that contain PERIWINKLE

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How to use PERIWINKLE in a sentence

• The baby Hermit takes the empty home of a periwinkle.
• You must have seen the little door with which the Periwinkle closes the entrance to his house.
• The Periwinkle crawls on a broad, slimy foot, which is put out from the shell.
• If alarmed, the Periwinkle can shorten his body, and pull it back into its shell, closing the entrance with the horny door.
• When my work was done, I took up Periwinkle in my arms once more, anxious to descend with her ere night fell.
• Lord Bacon observes that it was common in his time for persons to wear bands of green Periwinkle about the calf of the leg to prevent cramp.
• The flowers of the greater Periwinkle are gently purgative, but lose their effect by drying.
• In Gloucestershire, the flowers of the greater Periwinkle are called Cockles.
• We think of the lily of the valley, of the violet, the anemone, the periwinkle.
• Lord Bacon says that in his time people afflicted with cramp wore bands of green periwinkle tied about their limbs.

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