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periwinkle

In botany, any of several trailing blue-flowered evergreen plants of the dogbane family, native to Europe and Asia. They range in length from 20 cm/8 in to 1 m/3 ft. (Genus Vinca, family Apocynaceae.)

The related Madagascar periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) produces chemicals that prevent the division of cells and are used to treat leukaemia.

periwinkle

In zoology, any marine snail of the family Littorinidae, found on the shores of Europe and eastern North America. Periwinkles have a conical spiral shell, and feed on algae.



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Periwinkle is very much grown, and is expected to shut up her baby house and throw away her doll in a month or two more.
Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
"I should like to be a periwinkle," said he, mysteriously, "on the top of a valley, and sing tooralloo-ralloo.
The Four Million by Henry, O. View in context
For December, and January, and the latter part of November, you must take such things as are green all winter: holly; ivy; bays; juniper; cypress-trees; yew; pine-apple-trees; fir-trees; rosemary; lavender; periwinkle, the white, the purple, and the blue; germander; flags; orangetrees; lemon-trees; and myrtles, if they be stoved; and sweet marjoram, warm set.
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