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purple socks

purple socks is the plural of purple sock.

Meaning of purple sock

Noun

purple sock (plural purple socks)

  1. (rare) Any of the genus Xenoturbella of marine deep-water flatworm-like animals of the phylum Xenacoelomorpha.
    • [see title] The animal, called Xenoturbella, is so bizarre that for 60 years researchers could not work out what it was - or where it fitted into the family tree.2016 February 3, Rebecca Morelle, “Mystery of deep-sea 'purple sock' solved”, in BBC, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2025
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see purple, sock.

Questions about purple socks

What is purple socks the plural of?
Purple socks is the plural of purple sock.

Words near purple socks in the dictionary

  1. purple rices
  2. purple sandpiper
  3. purple sandpipers
  4. purple shirt of sex
  5. purple sock
  6. purple socks
  7. purple spurge
  8. purple squirrel
  9. purple squirrels
  10. purple state
  11. purple states

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