Meanings

lilac (colour)

dark lilac (color)

purple fleshed sweet potato (any one of several different such)

ninth of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Mars and south)

violet tinged with indigo

light purple

purple finch (Carpodacus purpureus)

bluish purple

wood blewit (Lepista nuda)

Tyrian purple

light purple (similar to that of the flowers of the Tartarian aster)

somewhat reddish purple

bluish-violet

Tyrian purple

tea-of-heaven (Hydrangea macrophylla subsp. serrata)

tea-of-heaven (Hydrangea macrophylla subsp. serrata)

to be purplish

purplish

purple Washington clam (Saxidomus purpurata)

purple vestment (traditionally awarded by the imperial household)