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Sporting colours or just colours [1] (sometimes with a modifier, e.g. club colours or school colours) are awarded to members of a university or school who have excelled in a sport. Many schools do not limit their use to sport but may also give colours for academic excellence or non-sporting extra-curricular activities, [2] [3] [4] Colours are ...
Prunus cerasifera is a species of plum known by the common names cherry plum and myrobalan plum. [3] It is native to Southeast Europe [4] [5] [6] and Western Asia, [3] [7] and is naturalised in the British Isles [4] and scattered locations in North America. [8] [9] [10] Also naturalized in parts of SE Australia where it is considered to be a ...
Agent Purple. Agent Purple is the code name for a powerful herbicide and defoliant used by the U.S. military in their herbicidal warfare program during the Vietnam War. The name comes from the purple stripe painted on the barrels to identify the contents. Largely inspired by the British use of herbicides and defoliants during the Malayan ...
The herb is known in Chinese as zǐsū ( 紫蘇 "purple perilla"), which is the origin of the Japanese name shiso ( 紫蘇 / シソ) and the Vietnamese name tía tô. [2] It is also called huíhuísū ( 回回蘇 "Muslim perilla") in Chinese. In Korean, it is known as soyeop ( 소엽) or chajogi (차조기). In ancient Japan, it was called inue ...
Aromantic flag. The aromantic pride flag consists of five horizontal stripes, which are (from top to bottom) green, light green, white, gray, and black. The flag was created by Cameron Whimsy [7] in 2014. [8] The green and light green stripes represent aromanticism and the aro-spectrum. The white stripe represents the importance and validity of ...
or. Red. or. Black. juichidan (十一段) junidan (十二段) Practitioners of Judo (柔道家, Jūdōka) are ranked according to their skill and knowledge, and, for later dan grades, their contribution to the art. Their rank is indicated by the colour of belt that they wear. There are two broad categories of rank: those who have attained a ...
Binomial name. Linaria purpurea. ( L.) Mill. Synonyms [1] Antirrhinum purpureum L. Termontis purpurea (L.) Raf. Linaria purpurea or purple toadflax is a purple-flowered plant native to Italy, part of the plantain family ( Plantaginaceae ). It is sometimes planted in gardens and is also an introduced weed in North America and other parts of Europe.
Violet is the color of light at the short wavelength end of the visible spectrum. It is one of the seven colors that Isaac Newton labeled when dividing the spectrum of visible light in 1672. Violet light has a wavelength between approximately 380 and 435 nanometers. [2] The color's name is derived from the Viola genus of flowers.