purple-eyed

1. 1.

   (of flowers) having a purple eyelike marking

   Similareyed

Questions about purple-eyed

What does purple-eyed mean?

purple-eyed means "(of flowers) having a purple eyelike marking".

How many syllables are in purple-eyed?

purple-eyed has 2 syllables: pur-ple-eyed. The stress falls on "pur".

Is purple-eyed a common word?

purple-eyed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.