Of a violet color: purple or purplish; blue with a tinge of red.
Of, resembling, or pertaining to the Violarieæ (Violaceæ).
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adjective.
Resembling violets in color; bluish purple.
adjective.
Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants, of which the violet is the type. It contains about twenty genera and two hundred and fifty species.
"My favorites were the toco toucan, motmot, currasows, Yucatan jay, cinnamon-colored cuckoo, and pileated woodpecker and violaceous trogon (a relative of the resplendent quetzal)."