I bought a variety of shade-loving plants to add to my garden: ferns, periwinkle, and several hostas with variegated green and white leaves.
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Periwinkle
//ˈpɛɹ.ɪˌwɪŋ.kəl//
Synonyms for "periwinkle" (29 found)
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75 translations across 34 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- χαμαιδάφνη noun (plant)
Belarusian
1 entries- барве́нак noun (plant)
Breton
1 entries- bigorn noun (mollusc)
Bulgarian
1 entries- зимзелен noun (plant)
Catalan
2 entries- pervinca noun (plant)
- vinca noun (plant)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 濱螺 /滨螺 noun (mollusc)
- 蔓長春花 /蔓长春花 noun (plant)
Czech
3 entries- barvínek noun (plant)
- brčál noun (plant)
- plážovka noun (mollusc)
Dutch
1 entries- alikruik noun (mollusc)
Esperanto
1 entries- vinko noun (plant)
Finnish
2 entries- rantakotilo noun (mollusc)
- talvio noun (plant)
French
4 entries- bigorneau noun (mollusc)
- pervenche noun (plant)
- pervenche noun (colour)
- vigneau noun (mollusc)
Galician
4 entries- bígaro noun (mollusc)
- cangroia noun (plant)
- caramuxo noun (mollusc)
- mincha noun (mollusc)
German
3 entries- Immergrün noun (plant)
- Singrün noun (plant)
- Uferschnecke noun (mollusc)
Hebrew
1 entries- וינקה noun (plant)
Hungarian
4 entries- babakék adj (colour)
- babakék noun (colour)
- meténg noun (plant)
- meténg noun (mollusc)
Ido
2 entries- pervinkea adj (colour)
- pervinko noun (plant)
Irish
4 entries- bláth na faochan noun (plant)
- faocha noun (mollusc)
- fincín noun (plant)
- gioradán noun (mollusc)
Italian
4 entries- pervinca adj (colour)
- litorina noun (mollusc)
- littorale noun (mollusc)
- pervinca noun (plant)
Japanese
3 entries- タマキビガイ noun (mollusc)
- ツルニチニチソウ noun (plant)
- ニチニチソウ noun (plant)
Kazakh
1 entries- қабыршөп noun (plant)
Latin
1 entries- pervinca noun (plant)
Māori
4 entries- ataata noun (mollusc)
- matatangata noun (mollusc)
- mākerekere noun (mollusc)
- mātangata noun (mollusc)
Norman
3 entries- bliuette noun (plant)
- pèrvenche noun (plant)
- v'licot noun (mollusc)
Polish
1 entries- barwinek noun (plant)
Portuguese
2 entries- litorina noun (mollusc)
- pervinca noun (plant)
Romanian
3 entries- litorină noun (mollusc)
- pervincă noun (plant)
- saschiu noun (plant)
Russian
2 entries- барви́нок noun (plant)
- литори́на noun (mollusc)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- zȉmzelēn noun (plant)
- зи̏мзеле̄н noun (plant)
Slovene
1 entries- zimzelen noun (plant)
Spanish
3 entries- bigarro noun (mollusc)
- bígaro noun (mollusc)
- vinca noun (plant)
Turkish
1 entries- Cezayir menekşesi noun (plant)
Ukrainian
1 entries- барві́нок noun (plant)
Vietnamese
1 entries- dừa cạn noun (plant)
Welsh
1 entries- perfagl noun (plant)
Sample sentences
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And, Pierrot, next time we pass a fine periwinkle thou hadst best jump down and pluck a fresh bunch for my Barbo’s ears.
Source: tatoeba (12162563)
The Periwinkle is a great binder, staying bleeding both at mouth and nose if some of the leaves be chewed.
Source: wiktionary
He that vvould diſcern the rudimentall ſtroak of a plant, may behold it in the Originall of Duckvveed, at the bigneſſe of a pins point, from convenient vvater in glaſſes, vvherein a vvatchfull eye may alſo diſcover the puncticular Originals of Perivvincles and Gnats.
Source: wiktionary
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