The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word PURPLES which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 1948.
Colors obtained from mollusks crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| PURPLES | 100 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Colors obtained from mollusks
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- purples
- sargassum fish
- shell
- oyster
- parrot
- parroting
- pastel
- chiaroscuro
- match
- matched
- aniline
- indigo
Crossword Answer definitions
PURPLES noun- A colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue; dark magenta.
- (colour theory) Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red.
- Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity.
- (by extension) Imperial power, because the colour purple was worn by emperors and kings.
- Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk.
- The purple haze cultivar of cannabis in the kush family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension any variety of smoked marijuana.
- Purpura.
- Earcockle, a disease of wheat.
- Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis).
- A cardinalate.
- To turn purple in colour.
- To dye purple.
- To clothe in purple.
- A recreational drug based on cough syrup, popular in the hip-hop community in the southern United States.
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