| It is an evergreen or semi-evergreen multi-stemmed shrub with lance shaped leaves that are purplish when young and flushed with colour in autumn. |
| The opium poppy is an annual herb with an erect stem, having a solitary flower that is white, red, or purplish, depending on the cultivar. |
| I could tell because there were a couple of wisps of purplish smoke wafting around the light fixtures a minute after I said it. |
| Ploughman's Spikenard is a tall, but rather plain plant with purplish stems and dull yellow flowers. |
| Our main sign is most often a wiry and choppy pulse, and congested purplish veins in the inner eye lids. |
| Across one large wall, a purplish strand of smoke pulsated and contracted, cohering into a monstrous head. |
