Word Meanings - PURPURIPAROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Producing, or connected with, a purple-colored secretion; as, the purpuriparous gland of certain gastropods.

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• PURPURIPAROUS
  Producing, or connected with, a purple-colored secretion; as, the purpuriparous gland of certain gastropods.
• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• GLANDULAR
  Containing or supporting glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands.
• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• CONNECTOR
  One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
• GLANDULOSITY
  Quality of being glandulous; a collection of glands. Sir T. Browne.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• GLAND
  The movable part of a stuffing box by which the packing is compressed; -- sometimes called a follower. See Illust. of Stuffing box, under Stuffing. (more info) An organ for secreting something to be used in, or eliminated from, the body; as, the
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• CONNECTIVELY
  In connjunction; jointly.
• GLANDAGE
  A feeding on nuts or mast. Crabb.
• CONNECTEDLY
  In a connected manner.
• GLANDERED
  Affected with glanders; as, a glandered horse. Yu
• COLORADO BEETLE
  A yellowish beetle , with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle.
• PRODUCTIVITY
  The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge.
• COLORADOITE
  Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado.
• PRODUCTUS
  An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks.
• GLANDULOUS
  Containing glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands; resembling glands.
• CERTAINTY
  Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• EMPURPLE
  To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to impurple. "The deep empurpled ran." Philips.
• ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
  A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from
• DISCONNECT
  To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
• OVERPRODUCTION
  Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.