purpurine
English
Noun
purpurine (countable and uncountable, plural purpurines)
- (rare) uroerythrin
- Alternative spelling of purpurin
Usage notes
- Purpurine is the name given to uroerythrin by Golding Bird in 1834 but is now rarely used. The name given by Franz Simon in 1840, uroerythrin, is the more common.