Definitions
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- adjective (of flowers) showing purple markings that resemble veins
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Examples
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Instead of truth to power, he told truth to the people, wrapped in a few "purple-veined dick jokes" to keep em laughing along the way.
Robbie Gennet: Review: Bill Hicks-The Essential Collection Robbie Gennet 2010
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Instead of truth to power, he told truth to the people, wrapped in a few "purple-veined dick jokes" to keep em laughing along the way.
Robbie Gennet: Review: Bill Hicks-The Essential Collection Robbie Gennet 2010
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The purple-veined organ at the bottom right is the bladder.
Archive 2008-05-01 Sarah Lenz 2008
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The purple-veined organ at the bottom right is the bladder.
Head Cheese...not for the faint of heart. Sarah Lenz 2008
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The purple-veined penis, whether engorged or flaccid, the wrinkled skin beneath holding the soft-toy floppiness and asymmetry of the testicles, are rarely pretty sights.
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A fuzzy golden orb with green flesh that grows on trees with enormous purple-veined leaves, is used to make a popular juice in Colombia, Peru and Ecuador.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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A fuzzy golden orb with green flesh that grows on trees with enormous purple-veined leaves, is used to make a popular juice in Colombia, Peru and Ecuador.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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A fuzzy golden orb with green flesh that grows on trees with enormous purple-veined leaves, is used to make a popular juice in Colombia, Peru and Ecuador.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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We have recovered tons of marble veneer, apparently composed of green cipollino in the lower part of the curved recesses around three sides of the pool, and of white or purple-veined (pavonazetto) from the Docimian quarries (near Afyon, Turkey) in the upper parts and the rest of the room.
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His eyes were dark blue, showing the fibrils, like a purple-veined flower at twilight, and somehow, mysteriously, joy seemed to quiver in the iris.
The Trespasser 2003
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