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  2. Yam (vegetable) - Wikipedia

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    In Okinawa, purple yams (Dioscorea alata) are grown. This purple yam is popular as lightly deep-fried tempura, as well as being grilled or boiled. Additionally, the purple yam is a common ingredient of yam ice cream with the signature purple color. Purple yam is also used in other types of traditional wagashi sweets, cakes, and candy. [citation ...

  3. Orchid (color) - Wikipedia

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    Orchid is a bright rich purple color that resembles the color which various orchids often exhibit. Various tones of orchid may range from grayish purple to purplish-pink to strong reddish purple. The first recorded use of orchid as a color name in English was in 1915. [1] In 1987, orchid was included as one of the X11 colors.

  4. Fuchsia (color) - Wikipedia

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    The color shown in the color box above is the color "fuchsia" in A Dictionary of Color. That is why the name fuchsia was chosen as the equivalent to one of the three secondary additive primary colors, electric magenta, because A Dictionary of Color was the primary reference on color names (besides the Munsell Book of Color) before the ...

  5. Shades of black - Wikipedia

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    The color displayed at right matches the color sample called taupe referenced below in the 1930 book A Dictionary of Color, the world standard for color terms before the invention of computers. However, the word taupe is currently often used to refer to lighter shades of taupe, and therefore another name for this color is dark taupe.

  6. Burgundy (color) - Wikipedia

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    Burgundy is a purplish red. [4] [5]European Union passports are usually burgundy in color. The color burgundy takes its name from the Burgundy wine in France.When referring to the color, "burgundy" is not usually capitalized.

  7. Eye color - Wikipedia

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    The irises of human eyes exhibit a wide spectrum of colours. Eye color is a polygenic phenotypic trait determined by two factors: the pigmentation of the eye's iris [1] [2] and the frequency-dependence of the scattering of light by the turbid medium in the stroma of the iris.

  8. Red-violet - Wikipedia

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    Eggplant is a dark purple [15] or purplish brown, [16] color that resembles the color of the outer skin of European eggplant. [17] Another name for the color "eggplant" is aubergine [16] (the French and British English word for eggplant). The first recorded use of "eggplant" as a color name in English was in 1915. [18] Eggplants, or aubergines

  9. Mauve - Wikipedia

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    Mallow wildflower. Mauve (/ ˈ m oʊ v / ⓘ, mohv; [2] / ˈ m ɔː v / ⓘ, mawv) is a pale purple color [3] [4] named after the mallow flower (French: mauve).The first use of the word mauve as a color was in 1796–98 according to the Oxford English Dictionary, but its use seems to have been rare before 1859.

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