any of various pale to moderate pinkish-purple or bluish-purple colours
b.
(as adjective)
a mauve flower
2. Also called: Perkin's mauve, mauveine (ˈməʊviːn, -vɪn)
a reddish-purple aniline dye
Word origin
C19: from French, from Latin malvamallow
Examples of 'mauveine' in a sentence
mauveine
Photographs are shown of the original samples of elemental bromine and crystalline silicon, and molecular ferrocene and mauveine.
Henry S. Rzepa 1998, 'Elemental and Molecular Heritage: An Internet-based Display', Moleculeshttp://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/3/3/94/. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)