RED-PURPLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does red-purple mean? 

• RED-PURPLE (adjective)
  The adjective RED-PURPLE has 1 sense:

1. of purple tinged with red

  Familiarity information: RED-PURPLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RED-PURPLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of purple tinged with red

Synonyms:

red-purple; reddisn-purple

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

 Context examples 

Round areas of red-purple reaction in the skin that result after drug exposure; these recur in the same location when the medication is readministered.

(Fixed Drug Eruption, NCI Thesaurus)

A measurement of the Cabot rings (red-purple staining, threadlike, ring or figure 8 shaped filaments in an erythrocyte) in a biological specimen.

(Cabot Ring Count, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)