purpurine
English edit
Noun edit
purpurine (countable and uncountable, plural purpurines)
- (rare) uroerythrin
- Alternative spelling of purpurin
Usage notes edit
- 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.
French edit
Noun edit
purpurine f (plural purpurines)
Further reading edit
- “purpurine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.