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nouna moderate purpletype of:
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adjectiveof a pale to moderate greyish violet color
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Definition that contains mauve
- mint any north temperate plant of the genus Mentha with aromatic leaves and small mauve flowers
- lavender any of various Old World aromatic shrubs or subshrubs with usually mauve or blue flowers; widely cultivated
- mauve-pink of pink tinged with mauve
- lesser twayblade orchid having two triangular leaves and a short lax raceme of green to rust-colored flowers with the lip flushed mauve; Europe and Asia and North America and Greenland
- dactylorhiza fuchsii European orchid having lanceolate leaves spotted purple and pink to white or mauve flowers spotted or lined deep red or purple
- rose-mauve of mauve tinged with rose
- listera cordata orchid having two triangular leaves and a short lax raceme of green to rust-colored flowers with the lip flushed mauve; Europe and Asia and North America and Greenland
- marsh rosemary any of various plants of the genus Limonium of temperate salt marshes having spikes of white or mauve flowers
- japanese wistaria having flowers of pink to mauve or violet-blue
- chaparral mallow shrub of coastal ranges of California and Baja California having hairy branches and spikes of numerous mauve flowers; sometimes placed in genus Sphaeralcea