Periwinkle vs Folly - What's the difference?
periwinkle | folly |
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.
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Thoughtless action resulting in tragic consequence.
A fanciful building built for purely ornamental reasons.
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As nouns the difference between periwinkle and folly
is that periwinkle is any of several evergreen plants of the genus vinca with blue or white flowers or periwinkle can be a mollusk of genus while folly is .As an adjective periwinkle
is of pale bluish purple colour.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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Quotations
* (English Citations of "periwinkle")Synonyms
* (plant) myrtle, vincaDerived terms
* Madagascar periwinkle * rose periwinkle * rosy periwinkleSee also
* * vinblastine * vincristine *Etymology 2
(etyl), alteration of *pinewinkle'' (compare English dialectal pennywinkle), from (etyl) 'mussel') and -''wincle (compare Danish dial. vinkel 'snail shell'), from wincel 'corner'. More at winch and wink.Synonyms
* (mollusk) winkleSee also
*folly
English
Noun
(follies)- This is a war of folly .
- The purchase of Alaska from Russia was termed Seward's folly.
- A luncheonette in the shape of a coffee cup is particularly conspicuous, as is intended of an architectural duck or folly .