Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Producing or secreting a purple substance: as, the purpuriparous glands of the sea-hare.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) Producing, or connected with, a purple-colored secretion.
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