purple

Definitions

• A colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue; dark magenta.
• (colour theory) Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red.
• Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity.
• (by extension) Imperial power, .
• Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk.
• The purple haze cultivar of cannabis in the kush family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension any variety of smoked marijuana.
• (medicine) Purpura.
• Earcockle, a disease of wheat.
• Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus (formerly ).
• A cardinalate.
• (slang)