Periwinkle vs Persimmon - What's the difference?
periwinkle | persimmon |
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.
A type of fruit, of orange colour, very sweet, quite astringent when immature.
The tree this fruit grows on, generally one of two species of ebony: (North American).
As nouns the difference between periwinkle and persimmon
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 persimmon is a type of fruit, of orange colour, very sweet, quite astringent when immature.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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