Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun visual_purple

1 sense of visual purple

Sense 1
visual purple, rhodopsin, retinal purple -- (a red photopigment in the retinal rods of vertebrates; dissociates into retinene by light)
       => photopigment -- (a special pigment found in the rods and cones of the retina)