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purpuraceous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
pur-pu-ra-ceous
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Purple-coloured.

Etymology

From Latin purpura (“purple”) + -aceous. Equivalent to purpure + -aceous.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more purpuraceous (comparative) most purpuraceous (superlative)

Questions

What does purpuraceous mean?
Purple-coloured.
Where does purpuraceous come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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