Definitions
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 .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective biology Having the power to produce a
purple colour.
Etymologies
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Latin purpura purple + -genous.
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