What is "purplish"

Usage examples of "purplish".

A jagged ivory metatarsal protruded from bloodied purplish flaps of skin.

Raquella heard the buzz of a bright green beetle as it dove out of dense purplish foliage, flew low along the polymerized leaves and canopy, then swooped higher above the treetops, its immense hard-shelled wings catching an updraft.

Our specimen was 5 inches broad, and the margin slightly striate, and when the cuticle was removed it was purplish underneath.

She looked at the subdolous, pale-green eyes, with their predatory restlessness, at the square-blocked, flaccid jaw, and the beefy, animal-like massiveness of the strong neck, at the huge form odorous of gin and cigar smoke, and the great, hairy hands marked with their purplish veinings.

He had been able to sense the purplish feel that underlay the pteridons, that strange similarity to the crystal that had powered the torques of the Matrial.

Compared to the soft and warm colors of the web stretching out below the peak, the purplish pink that surrounded him was wrong, not subtly wrong, but oppressively so, a color and shade that did not belong on Acorus, that conflicted and fought with the tapestry formed by the softer lifewebs.

When the sun sank I sat on the terrace meditating and contemplating the colors of the darkly shimmering well-nigh blackish green foliage of the magnolias, the snow of the mountains opposite, glittering golden in the evening light, above it the luminous, pale greenish blue sky, and below the purplish violet mountain slopes and the soft steel blue lake.

It thundered and flared, the bulbous purplish cockhead swollen and massive.

There was a cut on her left cheek extending nearly to her ear, and her right cheek was swollen, its edematous flesh mottled with an ugly purplish color.

The top surface of the computer is smooth except for a fisheye lens, a polished glass dome with a purplish optical coating.

A heavy purplish vapor in the crucible condensed on the walls into black, flakey crystals.

Spongy fat blurred his features, making it impossible for his round purplish face to even hold any other expression than the discontented hoggishness that was habitual to it.

The purplish light of dusk became inkier, and Abby pulled the shawl tighter.

The upper surface of the lobes, as already stated, is thickly covered with small purplish, almost sessile glands.

The upper surface of the leaf is thickly covered, excepting towards the margins, with minute glands of a reddish or purplish colour, the rest of the leaf being green.