Purple
//ˈpɝ.pl̩//
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The word "purple" can be used as noun, adjective, verb, adjective and proper noun.
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American purple gallinule Celebes bee-eater Chinese purple French purple Han purple Okinawan purple potato Perkin's purple Purple Hawke Purple Heart Purpleman Rebecca purple Schoenfeld's purple Tyrian purple aniline purple bee purple bepurple blurple born in the purple born to the purple bromcresol purple bromocresol purple common purple-glossed snake early-purple orchid empurple flying purple people eater flying purple people-eater impurple line of purples liseran purple once in a purple moon palatinate purple purple Jesus purple airway purple bacteria purple bar purple bird purple box purple cochoa purple copper ore purple coral purple death purple dye murex purple emperor purple everlasting purple finch purple gallinule purple gas purple glory-of-the-sun purple glossy starling purple glove syndrome purple gold purple grackle purple guava purple hairstreak purple helmet purple heron purple honeycreeper purple indigobird purple ivory purple joe-pye weed purple judge purple lettuce purple loosestrife purple marshlocks purple martin purple meadowrue purple milkweed purple monkey dishwasher purple nasty purple needletail purple noise purple notice purple nurple purple ochre purple of Cassius purple of mollusca purple passage purple passion purple patch purple pill purple pitcher plant purple plague purple prose purple quartz purple rice purple roller purple sandpiper purple shell purple shirt of sex purple spurge purple squirrel purple starling purple state purple storm snail purple sulfur bacterium purple sunbird purple swamphen purple team purple teamer purple three-awn grass purple tooth purple triangle purple urine bag syndrome purple velvet plant purple vetch purple wiregrass purple yam purple zone purple-backed fairywren purple-backed sunbeam purple-backed thornbill purple-banded sunbird purple-bearded bee-eater purple-bellied lory purple-breasted cotinga purple-breasted sunbird purple-capped fruit dove purple-crested turaco purple-crowned fairy purple-crowned fairy-wren purple-crowned fairywren purple-fish purple-gaped honeyeater purple-glossed snake purple-headed starling purple-headed yogurt slinger purple-naped lory purple-naped sunbird purple-rumped sunbird purple-tailed imperial pigeon purple-throated carib purple-throated cotinga purple-throated cuckooshrike purple-throated fruitcrow purple-throated mountaingem purple-throated sunangel purple-throated sunbird purple-throated woodstar purple-winged ground dove purple-winged roller purpleheart purpleleaf purplely purpleness purplescent purplespotted purpletuft purplewash purplewashing purplewood purplewort purplish purply purpureal raise to the purple red-spotted purple regal purple retinal purple rise to the purple royal purple slate purple take the purple unpurple velvet-purple coronet vision purple visual purple
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