purpurogenous

English

Etymology

From Latin purpura (“purple”) + -genous.

Adjective

purpurogenous (not comparable)

1. (biology) Having the power to produce a purple colour.

   the purpurogenous membrane, or choroidal epithelium, of the eye

See also

• visual purple

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “purpurogenous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)