periwinkle
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She cited aspirin drawing on formulations using willow tree bark, contraceptive pills developed from yam plant roots and child cancer treatments based on Madagascar's rosy periwinkle flower.
From Barron's • Dec. 17, 2025
Balloons in every color of pastel — pink, lavender, periwinkle blue — bobbed along the hall.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025
She said the rivers and ponds used to brim with all kinds of animals and fish, particularly periwinkle.
From BBC • Feb. 11, 2025
They recalled cleaning their graves in a cemetery whose stones, pottery and plantings of yucca and periwinkle were a window into ancestral burial practices.
From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2023
Mrs. Murphy gives me something new nearly every day—a skirt she says she found in a closet, a woolen hat, a camel-colored coat, a periwinkle scarf and matching mittens.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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