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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Producing a purple color: noting especially the layer of epithelium in the eye from which comes the visual purple.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Biol.) Having the power to produce a purple color. See Visual purple, under visual.

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  • adjective biology Having the power to produce a purple colour.

Etymologies

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Latin purpura purple + -genous.

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