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Purple Man
Purple Man (Zebediah Killgrave) is a Marvel Comics supervillain, a former Yugoslavian spy turned purple-skinned by chemicals, who controls minds with pheromones; debuted in Daredevil #4 (1964) and infamous for enslaving Jessica Jones.
Purple martin
Purple martin (Progne subis), Golondrina Purpúrea, largest North American swallow; eastern birds nest almost entirely in human-supplied houses and gourds, migrates to South America, declining about 25% from 1966 to 2019.
Purple membrane
The purple membrane is a patch of the archaeon Halobacterium salinarum's cytoplasmic membrane in which bacteriorhodopsin, a light-driven proton pump, is packed into a two-dimensional crystalline lattice; it was isolated in 1971.
Purple Mountains (album)
Purple Mountains is the 2019 self-titled Drag City album (DC680) by David Berman, his comeback after Silver Jews, produced with Woods' Jarvis Taveniere and Jeremy Earl; it earned a Metacritic 87 and was his final record.
Purple Noon
Purple Noon (Plein soleil) is René Clément's 1960 French-Italian crime thriller adapting Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley, starring Alain Delon as Tom Ripley in his star-making role, with Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt, Henri Decaë's cinematography, and Nino Rota's score.
Purple People Eaters
Purple People Eaters: famed Minnesota Vikings defensive line (1967–1977) of Alan Page, Carl Eller, Jim Marshall, and Gary Larsen; motto 'Meet at the quarterback'; four Super Bowl teams.
Purple Rain (album)
Purple Rain (1984), by Prince and the Revolution, is the soundtrack album to the film of the same name; it spent 24 weeks at Billboard No. 1, sold over 25 million copies, and won two Grammys and an Oscar.
Purple Rain (film)
Purple Rain is a 1984 American musical drama film starring Prince in his acting debut as the Kid, a Minneapolis musician performing with the Revolution.
Purple Rain (song)
"Purple Rain" (1984) by Prince and the Revolution: ballad recorded live at First Avenue, Minneapolis, edited from 13 to 8:41 minutes; peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100; Rolling Stone's #1 guitar solo.
Purple Reign
Purple Reign is Future's mixtape of January 17, 2016, hosted and executive-produced by DJ Esco and Metro Boomin, released via LiveMixtapes, tied to the Purple Reign Tour, and added to streaming in 2020.
Purple Robe Incident edicts
The Purple Robe Incident edicts (紫衣事件関係勅許) were Tokugawa bakufu regulations of 1613 and 1615 requiring bakufu approval before the emperor conferred purple robes on Zen abbots.
Purple-faced langur
Purple-faced langur (Semnopithecus vetulus, kaluwandura), also called purple-faced leaf monkey: an Endangered, Sri Lanka-endemic arboreal colobine monkey with four subspecies; the western subspecies nestor is Critically Endangered and among the world's 25 most endangered primates.
Purple.com
Purple.com, created by Jeff Abrahamson in 1994, was the earliest known single-serving website: one page, a purple background (#DD00FF, later #7D26CD), no content. Sold in 2017 for about $900,000 to Purple Innovation, a Utah mattress company, and now serves as its store.
PurpleAir
PurpleAir is a Draper, Utah manufacturer of low-cost air quality monitors that measure PM2.5 by laser light scattering and upload readings in real time to a public map, one of the largest crowdsourced air quality networks.
Purplle
Purplle is an Indian omnichannel beauty and personal-care retailer founded in 2012 by Manish Taneja, Rahul Dash, and Suyash Katyayani, running an online marketplace, private labels, and about 200 stores.
Purpose (Justin Bieber album)
Purpose is Justin Bieber's fourth studio album, released in 2015. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and earned four Grammy nominations for its content.
Purpose (play)
Purpose is Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's award-winning family drama about the Jaspers, a Black political dynasty. Premiered by Steppenwolf in 2024, it ran on Broadway at Hayes Theater in 2025 and won the Pulitzer Prize and Tony for Best Play.
Purpose World Tour
The Purpose World Tour, also known as the Purpose Tour, was Justin Bieber's third concert tour, supporting his 2015 album Purpose and grossing $257.8 million before its 2017 cancellation.
Purposive sampling
Purposive sampling, also called purposeful or judgment sampling, is a non-probability sampling method in which researchers deliberately select information-rich cases meeting criteria set out in advance.
Purpura
Purpura is a skin and mucous-membrane sign of purple spots that do not blanch when pressed, classified by platelet count and sometimes signaling urgent conditions like meningococcal sepsis.
Purpura (gastropod)
Purpura (Bruguiere, 1789) is an accepted genus of predatory muricid sea snails in the subfamily Rapaninae, with species P. bufo, P. panama, and P. persica; not to be confused with Purpura lapillus, now Nucella lapillus.
Purpura fulminans
Purpura fulminans: life-threatening skin microvascular thrombosis with hemorrhagic necrosis and DIC, in neonatal (protein C/S deficiency), acute infectious (meningococcal), and post-infectious forms; 16–41% mortality.
Purr
Purr: continuous low-frequency (25–30 Hz) cat vocalization made with mouth closed on in- and out-breaths; produced by laryngeal vibration, occurs in most felids and genets, signals contentment or distress, and lacks proven human healing effects.
Pursat
Pursat (ពោធិ៍សាត់) is Cambodia's fourth largest province, 12,692 km², on the Tonle Sap and Cardamom Mountains; capital Pursat town, known for marble carving, Kampong Luong floating village, and agriculture.
Pursed lip breathing
Pursed lip breathing is a breathing technique of inhaling through the nose and exhaling slowly through puckered lips, used mainly to ease breathlessness in COPD.
Purser
A purser, or ship's purser, is a shipboard officer responsible for provisions, stores, pay accounts, and administration; in modern passenger ships, the purser heads the administrative office.
Purshia tridentata
Purshia tridentata, antelope bitterbrush, is a deciduous Rosaceae shrub native from British Columbia to the US Southwest, covering about 340 million acres, valued as mule deer and livestock browse, with Frankia nitrogen fixation and deep taproots.
Pursued
Pursued (1947) is Raoul Walsh's film noir Western, written by Niven Busch, starring Robert Mitchum as massacre survivor Jeb Rand, with Teresa Wright and Judith Anderson; called Hollywood's first psychological or noir Western.
Pursuit (company)
Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality, doing business as Pursuit and formerly Viad Corporation, is a Denver-based operator of sightseeing attractions and hospitality, with 2025 revenue of $452.4 million.
Pursuit and Death of Minamoto no Yoshitsune
The Pursuit and Death of Minamoto no Yoshitsune was the 1185 to 1189 hunt by which Minamoto no Yoritomo destroyed his younger brother, the general Yoshitsune, ending in suicide at Koromogawa.