Myrtle vs Periwinkle - What's the difference?
myrtle | periwinkle | Synonyms |
An evergreen shrub or small tree of the genus Myrtus , native to southern Europe and north Africa.
Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Vinca with blue or white flowers.
* 1653 , (Nicholas Culpeper), The English Physician Enlarged , Folio Society 2007, p. 220:
A color with bluish and purplish hues, somewhat light.
Periwinkle is a synonym of myrtle.
As nouns the difference between myrtle and periwinkle
is that myrtle is an evergreen shrub or small tree of the genus Myrtus, native to southern Europe and north Africa while periwinkle is any of several evergreen plants of the genus Vinca with blue or white flowers.As a proper noun Myrtle
is {{given name|female|from=English}}.As an adjective periwinkle is
of pale bluish purple colour.myrtle
English
(wikipedia myrtle) (Myrtus)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* bog myrtle * common myrtle * crape myrtle * creeping myrtle * , crepe myrtle * myrtle warbler * myrtle wax * Saharan myrtle * sand myrtle * true myrtle * wax myrtleAnagrams
*periwinkle
English
(wikipedia periwinkle)Etymology 1
Diminutive of (etyl) perwinke, from (etyl) perfince, perwince (compare Middle High German berwinke), from Latin (vinca) pervinca (compare French pervenche, Italian pervinca), of unknown origin.Noun
(en noun)- The Periwinkle is a great binder, staying bleeding both at mouth and nose is some of the leaves be chewed.
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