Nouns starting with P

• purple gallinule — Noun – English ～ gallinules with showy purplish plumage
• purple orchis — Noun – English ～ North American orchid having a spike of violet-purple flowers mixed with white; sepals and petals form a hood
• purple-hooded orchis — Noun – English ～ North American orchid having a spike of violet-purple flowers mixed with white; sepals and petals form a hood
• purple amaranth — Noun – English ～ tall showy tropical American annual having hairy stems and long spikes of usually red flowers above leaves deeply flushed with purple; seeds often used as cereal
• purple avens — Noun – English ～ North American perennial with hairy basal pinnate leaves and purple flowers and plume-tipped fruits
• purple ground cherry — Noun – English ～ Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes
• purple — Noun – English ～ (in ancient Rome) position of imperial status; "he was born to the purple"
• purple — Noun – English ～ (Roman Catholic Church) official dress of a cardinal; so named after the Tyrial purple color of the robes
• purple clover — Noun – English ～ erect to decumbent short-lived perennial having red-purple to pink flowers; the most commonly grown forage clover
• purple mullein — Noun – English ～ Eurasian mullein with showy purple or pink flowers
• purple fringeless orchis — Noun – English ～ orchid of northeastern and alpine eastern North America closely related to the purple fringed orchids but having rosy-purple or violet flowers with denticulate leaf divisions
• purple avens — Noun – English ～ erect perennial of north temperate zone having pinnate leaves and a few nodding flowers with a brown-purple calyx and orange and pink petals
• purple bacteria — Noun – English ～ free-living Gram-negative pink to purplish-brown bacteria containing bacteriochlorophyll
• purple fringeless orchid — Noun – English ～ orchid of northeastern and alpine eastern North America closely related to the purple fringed orchids but having rosy-purple or violet flowers with denticulate leaf divisions
• purple pea — Noun – English ～ any of several attractive evergreen shrubs of Australia grown for their glossy deep green foliage and flowers in rich blues and intense violets
• purple emperor — Noun – English ～ large European butterfly the male of which has wings shaded with purple
• purple-fringed orchid — Noun – English ～ North American orchid similar to Habenaria psycodes with larger paler flowers
• purple-fringed orchis — Noun – English ～ North American orchid with clusters of fragrant purple fringed flowers
• purple beech — Noun – English ～ variety of European beech with shining purple or copper-colored leaves
• purple loosestrife — Noun – English ～ marsh herb with a long spike of purple flowers; originally of Europe but now rampant in eastern United States

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