ma‧gen‧ta/məˈdʒentə/ noun[UNCOUNTABLE] [date : 1800-1900; Origin : Magenta, town in Italy where the substance the color is made from was discovered] a dark reddish purple colour
—magenta adjective
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A shiver of magenta vibrates a yellow aureole of wall, dark teal scribbles a cloud of gray-blue floor. ▪ Although it is summer, she is wearing magenta stockings and black shoes with delicate straps. ▪ He found hubcaps.-He repainted the car a pretty magenta. ▪ One contains black ink; the other contains cyan, magenta and yellow. ▪ Primary colours cyan, magenta and yellow. ▪ So yellow and cyan produces green, and yellow and magenta produces red. ▪ The three parts carry either cyan, magenta and yellow ink or red, green and blue ink. ▪ The white woman picked a branch of magenta bougainvillea flowers and put them in a glass on the table.