Violaceous

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of a violet color: purple or purplish; blue with a tinge of red.
  • Of, resembling, or pertaining to the Violarieæ (Violaceæ).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. violet colored.
  • Word Usage
    "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)."
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