We cut them open and find them a purplish-black color inside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners] Reference

Her eyes were blue on top of purplish-black crescent-shaped bruises.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference

The ripe beans are pale cream-white, spotted with deep purplish-black.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

~ Iodine is a purplish-black, shining, heavy solid which crystallizes in brilliant plates.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference

I handed him the second bottle, this one of green glass filled with a purplish-black liquor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragonfly in Amber]

The substance so prepared consists of beautiful purplish-black crystals, which are very hard.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference

A big, shiny, ugly, purplish-black face like that of a fangy gorilla glared through the hole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cold Copper Tears]

He was wearing a purplish-black robe and long blue hair secured in back as a simple horsetail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]

By the time we were ready to go, the sun set in a bruise of purplish-black clouds that promised rain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ms Longshot]

The edges of the puncture were a sickly, purplish-black color, and a ghastly odor rose from the wound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Hunter]

Right now she rested her elbows on the desk and let the fingers hang down, nails purplish-black like talons.    From Wordnik.com.  [the deer leap]

She could hear their thudding roar, and occasionally saw one hovering above in the purplish-black night sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Wind Blows]

Frostbitten areas turn purplish-black when they are warmed again, and form a hard shell that peels off painfully.    From Wordnik.com.  [Weatherwatch: When frost nip turns to bite] Reference

The cold blond hair and purplish-black skin were common on high-UV worlds, while the brown eyes were as ordinary as could be.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]

That one exception was a long, purplish-black, roughened discoloration that ran along one side for almost half of the ship's seventeen meters of length.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference

The Hass, for instance, which is the leading type of California avocado, has a light green skin that turns purplish-black when it ripens and the meat is pale green with a creamy texture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Avocados!] Reference

The J'Jal librarian wore the same purplish-black robe and blue ponytail, and his expression hadn't changed in the last few days — a bilious outrage focused on those who would injure his helpless dependents.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]

Wings velvety, rather long, brown beneath, with an exterior and a submarginal row of white dots; fore wings purplish-black, with a few exterior and submarginal white points; hind wings brown, with submargiual white points.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference

I was particularly taken with the Black Pearl tomatoes I came across – they had a deep purplish-black color and were described as “the Johnny Depp of tomatoes” whoever gives me the best explanation of that one wins a prize.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cherry Tomato and Caramelized Shallot Galette] Reference

Behind them, the face of the doorkeeper had gone from white to a dingy purplish-black, as if it were choking on something'something which had been fleeing so rapidly that it had entered the monster's mouth and jammed in its gullet before it realized what it was doing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Waste Lands]

Wings purplish-black; fore wings with four vitreous spots; the fore one of the interior pair not one-third of the size of the hind one, which is very long; the fore one of the exterior pair much narrower than the hind one, and accompanied at its inner end by an elongated vitreous point; hind wings with an elongated vitreous spot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference

The skin will be pebbly and almost purplish-black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freep.com - RSS] Reference

Both girls flushed slightly, the purplish-black color suffusing their faces.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Skylark of Space] Reference

Somewhat flattened vertically, 1/4 inch in diameter; purplish-black, edible, slightly bitter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference

He was back at the sink once more, allowing Niagara to lave that injured eye, now a shining purplish-black.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rich Little Poor Boy] Reference

We don't know what variety of cherry, but they were quite red, rather than the purplish-black kind we're more familiar with in Australia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crash Test Kitchen] Reference

The wood ibis is larger than either of the other two; its general plumage is white, the tips of the wings and the tail being of a purplish-black.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco] Reference

It was a tall and mature woman who wore over a dress of purplish-black silk a vast flowing sortie de bal of vermilion velvet, looped and tasselled with gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference

Radiant in queenly beauty, with the smile of satisfaction that accompanies the inner assurance of beauty and power -- in a moment she will be convulsively rolling on the floor, her swollen face purplish-black with the poison, her mouth emitting foam like a mad dog.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Browning: How to Know Him] Reference

He groped for the tin box, and got it, and bit off a corner of the sticky brown lump, and ate it as he went along, and his laboured breathing calmed, and the chilly sweat dried upon his copper-burned skin, that had the purplish-black tinge in it that comes of saturation with iodide of potassium.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dop Doctor] Reference

A thick substance which they knew to be red, in spite of its purplish-black color.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Skylark of Space] Reference

I am on a re-breather oxygen mask and I’m not really expecting things to get better soon purplish-black is so much better for hand/arm color anyway!.    From Wordnik.com.  [N.D.Y., cats and the name game.] Reference

Skin dark purple, sometimes purplish-black.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

It's purplish-black and green at the edges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Everything2 New Writeups] Reference