railway creeper
noun
An ipomoea, Ipomoea cairica (family Convolvulaceae), with pale purple or mauve flowers, commonly found on railway stations in India.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Bithia Mary Croker (c1848–1920), novelist.
- Perkins, Carl
- Perkins, Frances
- Perkin, Sir William Henry
- Perkinsism
- Perkin's mauve
- Perkin's purple
- Perkin's reaction
- Perkin's violet
- Perkin synthesis
- perkish
- perk test
- perky
- Perl
- perlaceous
- per-lamb
- perlative
- perlection
- perlemoen
- perlid
- Perlis
- perlite
- perlitic
- Perlman, Itzhak
- perlocution
- perlocutionary