Definitions
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- adjective of purple with a rose tinge
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Examples
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Up high in the snow, ridges stretch away to east, west and south in a bloom of rosy-purple light glowing behind the pencilled outlines of the hills and mountains.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Up high in the snow, ridges stretch away to east, west and south in a bloom of rosy-purple light glowing behind the pencilled outlines of the hills and mountains.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Flowers are only rarely produced by cultivated plants; they are small, tubular, rosy-purple, the stamens yellow.
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The flowers are produced on stout stems, 8in. high, arranged in branched heads, of a rose or rosy-purple colour, and bell-shaped.
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The genus contains many other lively spring-blooming plants, of which _A. hortensis_ and _A. fulgens_ have less divided leaves and splendid rosy-purple or scarlet flowers; they require similar treatment.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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Flowers funnel-shaped, resembling Canterbury Bells, borne in a cluster on the summit of the plant; ovary short and scaly; petals joined at the base, and coloured a rosy-purple, dashed with yellow; the stamens fill the whole of the flower-tube and are white; style a little longer than the flower-tube, and bearing a ray of about a dozen stigmas.
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Many of the species of Hellebore are known to produce flowers varying more or less in colour; and we also know that an individual blossom, during the long period in which the sepals keep good, often changes its tints and colours, but we are scarcely prepared to hear that a species has greenish-white flowers, whilst we have always seen a rosy or rosy-purple one produced.
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-- This is a fine border hardy perennial, producing long racemes of rosy-purple flowers in June or July.
Gardening for the Million Alfred Pink
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It shines most as a rock plant; its long and bending stems, which are somewhat procumbent, have as much rigidity about them as to prevent their having a weak appearance; the tips, moreover, are erect, showing off to advantage the handsome imbricate bracts, bespangled as they are with numerous rosy-purple blossoms.
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The hybrids are a very striking race, invaluable for greenhouse and conservatory decoration, producing a continuous succession of large trumpet-shaped flowers, embracing colours ranging from pure white, through lavender, purple, violet, rose, and red, to rich rosy-purple.
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons
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