Getty Images. The organic-food business is booming: About 70 percent of Americans buy organic food occasionally, and nearly one quarter buy it every week, according to the Hartman Group, a market research firm.
Top Definition. purple prose. a term used to describe literature where the writing is unnecessarily flowery. it means that the writer described the situation (or wrote the entire book, passage, etc) using words that are too extravagant for the type of text, or any text at all.
Definition. Prose is ordinary writing (both fiction and nonfiction) as distinguished from verse. In his book The Establishment of Modern English Prose (1998), Ian Robinson observes that the term prose is surprisingly hard to define. . . . We shall return to the sense there may be in the old joke that prose is not verse.. See the observations below.