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purpura
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Purpura
(gcide) | Purpura \Pur"pu*ra\, n. [L., purple, purple fish: cf. F.
purpura. See Purple.]
1. (Med.) A disease characterized by livid spots on the skin
from extravasated blood, with loss of muscular strength,
pain in the limbs, and mental dejection; the purples.
--Dunglison.
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2. (Zool.) A genus of marine gastropods, usually having a
rough and thick shell. Some species yield a purple dye.
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purpura
(wn) | purpura
n 1: any of several blood diseases causing subcutaneous bleeding
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idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
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nonthrombocytopenic purpura
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purpura
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purpura hemorrhagica
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purpurate
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thrombocytopenic purpura
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ammonium purpurate
(gcide) | Murexide \Mu*rex"ide\, n. [L. murex the purple fish, purple.]
(Chem.)
A crystalline nitrogenous substance (C8H8N6O6,
5-5'-nitrilodibarbituric acid monoammonium salt) having a
splendid dichroism, being green by reflected light and
garnet-red by transmitted light. It was formerly used in
dyeing calico, and was obtained in a large quantities from
guano. It is now synthesized from alloxan. Formerly called
also ammonium purpurate.
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purpuras
(gcide) | Rhachiglossa \Rhach`i*glos"sa\, n. pl. [NL. See Rhachis, and
Glossa.] (Zool.)
A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis
and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It
includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the
miters, murices, olives, purpuras, volutes, and
whelks. See Illust. in the Appendix.
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Purpurate
(gcide) | Purpurate \Pur"pu*rate\, a.
Of or pertaining to purpura.
[1913 Webster]Purpurate \Pur"pu*rate\, n. (Chem.)
A salt of purpuric acid.
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Salmo purpuratus
(gcide) | Salmon \Salm"on\ (s[a^]m"[u^]n), n.; pl. Salmons (-[u^]nz) or
(collectively) Salmon. [OE. saumoun, salmon, F. saumon, fr.
L. salmo, salmonis, perhaps from salire to leap. Cf. Sally,
v.]
1. (Zool.) Any one of several species of fishes of the genus
Salmo and allied genera. The common salmon ({Salmo
salar}) of Northern Europe and Eastern North America, and
the California salmon, or quinnat, are the most important
species. They are extensively preserved for food. See
Quinnat.
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Note: The salmons ascend rivers and penetrate to their head
streams to spawn. They are remarkably strong fishes,
and will even leap over considerable falls which lie in
the way of their progress. The common salmon has been
known to grow to the weight of seventy-five pounds;
more generally it is from fifteen to twenty-five
pounds. Young salmon are called parr, peal, smolt, and
grilse. Among the true salmons are:
Black salmon, or Lake salmon, the namaycush.
Dog salmon, a salmon of Western North America
(Oncorhynchus keta).
Humpbacked salmon, a Pacific-coast salmon ({Oncorhynchus
gorbuscha}).
King salmon, the quinnat.
Landlocked salmon, a variety of the common salmon (var.
Sebago), long confined in certain lakes in consequence of
obstructions that prevented it from returning to the sea.
This last is called also dwarf salmon.
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Note: Among fishes of other families which are locally and
erroneously called salmon are: the pike perch, called
jack salmon; the spotted, or southern, squeteague;
the cabrilla, called kelp salmon; young pollock,
called sea salmon; and the California yellowtail.
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2. A reddish yellow or orange color, like the flesh of the
salmon.
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Salmon berry (Bot.), a large red raspberry growing from
Alaska to California, the fruit of the Rubus Nutkanus.
Salmon killer (Zool.), a stickleback ({Gasterosteus
cataphractus}) of Western North America and Northern Asia.
Salmon ladder, Salmon stair. See Fish ladder, under
Fish.
Salmon peel, a young salmon.
Salmon pipe, a certain device for catching salmon. --Crabb.
Salmon trout. (Zool.)
(a) The European sea trout (Salmo trutta). It resembles
the salmon, but is smaller, and has smaller and more
numerous scales.
(b) The American namaycush.
(c) A name that is also applied locally to the adult black
spotted trout (Salmo purpuratus), and to the steel
head and other large trout of the Pacific coast.
[1913 Webster]Mykiss \My"kiss\, n. [Russ. muikize, prob. fr. a native name.]
(Zool.)
A salmon (Salmo mykiss, syn. Salmo purpuratus) marked
with black spots and a red throat, found in most of the
rivers from Alaska to the Colorado River, and in Siberia; --
called also black-spotted trout, cutthroat trout, and
redthroat trout.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]Trout \Trout\ (trout), n. [AS. truht, L. tructa, tructus; akin
to Gr. trw`kths a sea fish with sharp teeth, fr. trw`gein to
gnaw.]
1. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of fishes belonging to
Salmo, Salvelinus, and allied genera of the family
Salmonidae. They are highly esteemed as game fishes and
for the quality of their flesh. All the species breed in
fresh water, but after spawning many of them descend to
the sea if they have an opportunity.
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Note: The most important European species are the river, or
brown, trout (Salmo fario), the salmon trout, and the
sewen. The most important American species are the
brook, speckled, or red-spotted, trout ({Salvelinus
fontinalis}) of the Northern United States and Canada;
the red-spotted trout, or Dolly Varden (see Malma);
the lake trout (see Namaycush); the black-spotted,
mountain, or silver, trout (Salmo purpuratus); the
golden, or rainbow, trout (see under Rainbow); the
blueback trout (see Oquassa); and the salmon trout
(see under Salmon.) The European trout has been
introduced into America.
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2. (Zool.) Any one of several species of marine fishes more
or less resembling a trout in appearance or habits, but
not belonging to the same family, especially the
California rock trouts, the common squeteague, and the
southern, or spotted, squeteague; -- called also
salt-water trout, sea trout, shad trout, and {gray
trout}. See Squeteague, and Rock trout under Rock.
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Trout perch (Zool.), a small fresh-water American fish
(Percopsis guttatus), allied to the trout, but
resembling a perch in its scales and mouth.
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alpinia purpurata
(wn) | Alpinia purpurata
n 1: an ornamental ginger native to Pacific islands [syn: {red
ginger}, Alpinia purpurata] |
asclepias purpurascens
(wn) | Asclepias purpurascens
n 1: perennial of eastern North America having pink-purple
flowers [syn: purple silkweed, Asclepias purpurascens] |
cyclamen purpurascens
(wn) | Cyclamen purpurascens
n 1: Mediterranean plant widely cultivated as a houseplant for
its showy dark green leaves splotched with silver and
nodding white or pink to reddish flowers with reflexed
petals [syn: cyclamen, Cyclamen purpurascens] |
epacris purpurascens
(wn) | Epacris purpurascens
n 1: small shrub of southern and western Australia having
pinkish to rosy purple tubular flowers [syn: {Port Jackson
heath}, Epacris purpurascens] |
hygrophorus purpurascens
(wn) | Hygrophorus purpurascens
n 1: a fungus with a viscid purplish red cap and stalk; found
under spruce and other conifers |
idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
(wn) | idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
n 1: purpura associated with a reduction in circulating blood
platelets which can result from a variety of factors [syn:
thrombocytopenic purpura, {idiopathic thrombocytopenic
purpura}, purpura hemorrhagica, Werlhof's disease] |
nonthrombocytopenic purpura
(wn) | nonthrombocytopenic purpura
n 1: purpura resulting from a defect in the capillaries caused
by bacteria or drugs |
purpura
(wn) | purpura
n 1: any of several blood diseases causing subcutaneous bleeding
[syn: purpura, peliosis] |
purpura hemorrhagica
(wn) | purpura hemorrhagica
n 1: purpura associated with a reduction in circulating blood
platelets which can result from a variety of factors [syn:
thrombocytopenic purpura, {idiopathic thrombocytopenic
purpura}, purpura hemorrhagica, Werlhof's disease] |
purpurate
(wn) | purpurate
v 1: color purple [syn: purple, empurple, purpurate] |
thrombocytopenic purpura
(wn) | thrombocytopenic purpura
n 1: purpura associated with a reduction in circulating blood
platelets which can result from a variety of factors [syn:
thrombocytopenic purpura, {idiopathic thrombocytopenic
purpura}, purpura hemorrhagica, Werlhof's disease] |
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