purpureo-

See also: purpureo

English

Etymology

From Latin purpureus (“purple”).

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Prefix

purpureo-

purple; used to designate certain brilliant purple-red compounds of cobaltic chloride and ammonia, similar to the roseocobaltic compounds

Derived terms

English terms prefixed with purpureo-

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “purpureo-”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)