periwinkle

Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Vinca with blue or white flowers.

The Periwinkle is a great binder, staying bleeding both at mouth and nose if some of the leaves be chewed.

He that vvould diſcern the rudimentall ſtroak of a plant, may behold it in the Originall of Duckvveed, at the bigneſſe of a pins point, from convenient vvater in glaſſes, vvherein a vvatchfull eye may alſo diſcover the puncticular Originals of Perivvincles and Gnats.

Similar plants of genus Catharanthus.

A color with bluish and purplish hues, somewhat light.

And although we’ve certainly seen a variety of blue shades — from periwinkle to cobalt and even Dean Cain’s indigo-washed costume from the 1990’s TV show “Lois & Clark” — Superman’s uniform is still instantly recognizable across generations. In fact, there is only one film — Zack Snyder’s 2013 “Man of Steel” — in which Superman does not wear his iconic red belted trunks.

Of pale bluish purple colour.

A mollusk of family Littorinidae.

He was working a pin into a periwinkle shell, turning it to extract the toothsome morsel of meat.

A caddisfly larva.