The Collaborative International Dictionary
Standergrass \Stand"er*grass`\ (-gr[.a]s`), n. (Bot.) A plant ( Orchis mascula); -- called also standerwort, and long purple. See Long purple, under Long.
Usage examples of "long purple".
He flattened himself in the dust as a fresh crew of flunkies rushed to unroll a long purple rug about two-and-a-half feet wide.
But the image that would ever cling to Liriel's memory was not that of the island's rugged coast and fingerlike coves, or the picturesque villages and rounded green hills beyond, or even the deeply forested mountains that cast long purple shadows in the dying light.
Still he was sure that ladies must be different from men down there and they had spent a long purple summer dusk discussing it, swatting mosquitoes and watching a scratch baseball game in the lot of the moving van company across the street from Burr's.
His fingers closed automatically around the softness of one breast that was enshrined in the long purple of her hair.
John Star turned to see him carried off the ground by a long purple rope.
Carefully, oh so carefully, he visualized a long purple line from the chamber through the muzzle and straight to the lower pteridon.
Me, six feet tall with glass blue eyes, in long purple velvet robes, looking down with gently parted hands on the faithful who pray as they touch my foot.
A bald man in a very long purple coat had actually shaken his hand in the street the other day and then walked away without a word.