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purple-black

ADJECTIVE
  1. of black tinged with purple

How To Use purple-black In A Sentence

  • It is a scandent shrub, and its purple-black drupes are likely dispersed by birds.
  • I was shocked at what I saw, " he said. "The medial side of my leg was grotesquely streaked in purple-black from the bottom of my calf to my ankle, including the top of my foot.
  • I spotted an unlabeled plant at the nursery with gorgeous purple-black foliage and a hairy stem and asked the owner what it was.
  • Bunker had never seen their like: apples the shape of a perfect McIntosh (a variety widely planted in Maine only after a calamitous freeze killed more than a million trees in 1934) but colored a lustrous dark cordovan, purple-black with firm, cream-colored flesh. Beyond the McIntosh
  • FRUIT: A grey to purple-black, straight or slightly curved indehiscent pod up to 12 cm long by 1.2 cm wide, with a whitish bloom and a gummy pulp. Chapter 7
  • He hauled himself into a sitting position, his wealth of black tresses tumbling down his back and framing his face in a lustrous purple-black surround.
  • His huge nose, which was shot with a webwork of tiny broken veins, glistened purple-black. THE BROKEN GOD
  • The Mexican avocado, unlike the other two species, Guatemalan and West Indian, has leaves with a distinctive anise scent, and one of the varieties found in Mexico, the criollo, is eaten with its thin, purple-black skin. The Avocado: On Beyond Guacamole
  • Her arm did not end in a hand, but instead the corded purple-black muscles ended in a three-taloned claw.
  • With its phenomenal fringed and ruffled petals and velvety purple-black color, this is a tulip that stands out in any garden.
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