The bruises on his face had turned to purplish-green smudges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blood Test] Reference

The leaves are spreading, much indented, and of a purplish-green color.    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

She was being escorted by a group of tall, thin purplish-green creatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mostly Harmless]

The mirror above the dresser showed me a sandy-srubbled face, slightly purplish-green around the eyes, but unlikely to frighten timid toddlers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sagittarius Whorl]

The plant is from two to three feet high, and a strong grower; the leaves are comparatively short, spreading, and of a purplish-green color; the head is quite open from the leaves.    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 also differs in the depth of bloom-colour; some of its flowers may be described as purplish-green and others as greenish-purple, slaty and dove-coloured; others have a tinge of red more visible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference

The whole surface of the soil may be covered with the trailing Lycopodium; by placing small pieces here and there, it will soon spread over the entire surface, making a beautiful ground work of purplish-green.    From Wordnik.com.  [Your Plants Plain and Practical Directions for the Treatment of Tender and Hardy Plants in the House and in the Garden] Reference

It was of a dark-violet colour, with a purplish-green gloss on the back and breast.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Banks of the Amazon] Reference

= -- Bark of trunk and large branches grayish or pale ash-colored, comparatively thin, flaky; branchlets grayish-brown; season's shoots in early summer purplish-green with pale dots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference

Oregano's flowers are tall, purple or white, and shaped a bit like tubes. the flowers are very small and many of them will sprout out of a purplish-green collection of leafy scales that are about.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Oregano's flowers are tall, purple or white, and shaped a bit like tubes. the flowers are very small and many of them will sprout out of a purplish-green collection of leafy scales that are about 2. 5cm long.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

= -- Bark of trunk in old trees blackish, broken-ridged, rough, often separating into small, firm, 4-angled or roundish plates; branches grayish, streaked with white lines; season's twigs purplish-green, downy; taste bitter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference

The lower part of the back, and the upper tail-coverts, are of a resplendent green with an orange gloss; and the wings and tail of purple-black, the two elongated feathers of the tail excepted -- they being of a purplish-green.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

At dim-dawn they hung purplish-green and black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil] Reference

 purplish-green smudges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blood Test]