purpura noun. ['pǝ:pjʊǝrǝ] M18.
[Latin: see PURPLE adjective & noun.]
1. Medicine. A skin rash of purple spots resulting from the rupture of small blood capillaries. Also (usu. with specifying word), any of various diseases characterized by this. M18.

2. Zoology. Any of various gastropod molluscs now or formerly of the genus Purpura, esp. any from which a purple dye was formerly obtained (cf. PURPLE noun 1b). Now only as mod. Latin genus name. M18.

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