Usually means: Natural dye derived from madder.
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  1. purpurin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. purpurin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. purpurin: Collins English Dictionary
  4. purpurin, purpurin: Wordnik
  5. purpurin: Wiktionary
  6. purpurin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. purpurin: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. purpurin: Dictionary.com
  9. Purpurin (dye), Purpurin (glass), Purpurin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Purpurin: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Purpurin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. purpurin: FreeDictionary.org
  13. purpurin: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. purpurin: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. purpurin: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. purpurin: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Purpurin: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (purpurin)

noun:  A red anthraquinone dye, extracted from madder, that is used as a biological stain
noun:  (biochemistry) A protein of the lipocalin family
noun:  (historical) A brownish or deep red decorative glass used in ancient times

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