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Purpura

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Purpura has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

Purpuran. [L., purple, purple fish: cf. F. purpura. See Purple.].
  •  A disease characterized by livid spots on the skin from extravasated blood, with loss of muscular strength, pain in the limbs, and mental dejection; the purples.  Dunglison.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A genus of marine gastropods, usually having a rough and thick shell. Some species yield a purple dye.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Purpura, n.
1 a disease characterized by purple or livid spots on the skin, due to internal bleeding from small blood vessels.
2 any mollusc of the genus Purpura, some of which yield a purple dye.

Derivative
purpuric adj.
Etymology
L f. Gk porphura purple
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