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Definition of Purple shell

Purple shell
Purple Pur"ple, a. 1. Exhibiting or possessing the color called purple, much esteemed for its richness and beauty; of a deep red, or red and blue color; as, a purple robe. 2. Imperial; regal; -- so called from the color having been an emblem of imperial authority. Hide in the dust thy purple pride. --Shelley. 3. Blood-red; bloody. May such purple tears be alway shed. --Shak. I view a field of blood, And Tiber rolling with a purple blood. --Dryden. Purple bird (Zo["o]l.), the European purple gallinule. See under Gallinule. Purple copper ore. (Min.) See Bornite. Purple grackle (Zo["o]l.), the crow blackbird. See under Crow. Purple martin. See under Martin. Purple sandpiper. See under Sandpiper. Purple shell. See Ianthina.
purple shell
Ianthina I*an"thi*na, n.; pl. L. Ianthin[ae], E. Ianthinas. [NL., fr. L. ianthinus violet-blue, Gr. ?; ? violet + ? flower.] (Zo["o]l.) Any gastropod of the genus Ianthina, of which various species are found living in mid ocean; -- called also purple shell, and violet snail. [Written also janthina.] Note: It floats at the surface by means of a raft, which it constructs by forming and uniting together air bubbles of hardened mucus. The Tyrian purple of the ancients was obtained in part from mollusks of this genus.

Meaning of Purple shell from wikipedia

- Purple is a color similar in appearance to violet light. In the RYB color model historically used in the arts, purple is a secondary color created by...
- Tyrian purple (Ancient Gr****: πορφύρα porphúra; Latin: purpura), also known as royal purple, imperial purple, or imperial dye, is a reddish-purple natural...
- adopted the screen name of Ting Pei. Her first film in Hong Kong was The Purple S****, where she acted as a dance hostess. Although Ting had acted in dramas...
- North Atlantic channeled whelk s**** and white and purple beads made from the quahog or Western North Atlantic hard-s****ed clam. In New York, wampum beads...
- discovered the purple-s****. He was wandering on the coastal part of Tyre city when he saw a shepherd dog eating the so-called purple-s****, which is a small...
- first time. She received a purple s**** sent by Hsiao Kang to the orphanage. Apparently, Zerya received another purple s**** and was heading to the orphanage...
- Along with Fox and Tommy, it has a plush toy. Robin. Snail: It has a purple s****. Fox: Along with Chief and Tommy, it has a plush toy. Badger. Caterpillar...
- (alternatively known as imperial purple, see purple) was also prohibitively expensive. Jews may have used the pigment from the s**** to create a sky-blue, tekhelet...
- the channeled whelk s**** Busycotypus canaliculatus or Busycotypus carica. Sewant or suckauhock beads are the black or purple s**** beads made from the...
- s**** of this species have been found in Cyprus, Spain and Italy. It was used by the Phoenicians in ancient times to extract imperial Tyrian purple dye...