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noun. Any of various low-growing herbs of the genus Viola, having short-spurred, irregular flowers that are characteristically purplish-blue but sometimes yellow or white.

noun. Any of several similar plants, such as an African violet.

noun. The hue of the short-wave end of the visible spectrum, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 380 to 420 nanometers; any of a group of colors, reddish-blue in hue, that may vary in lightness and saturation.

noun. A plant of the genus Viola, or one of its flowers; also, one of a few plants of other genera. See Viola, compound names below, and cut in next column.

noun. A general class of colors, of which the violetflower is a highly chromatic example.

noun. Any one of the many different small blue or violet butterflies of Lycæna, Polyommatus, and allied genera.

noun. Locally, same as bog-violet.

Having the color of violet, a deep blue tinged with red.

noun. A viola d'amore. Sometimes called English violet.

adjective. Dark blue, inclining to red; bluish purple; having a color produced by red and blue combined.

adjective. any species of Ianthina; -- called also violet snail. See Ianthina.

adjective. a name given to several kinds of hard purplish or reddish woods, as king wood, myall wood, and the wood of the Andira violacea, a tree of Guiana.

noun. Any plant or flower of the genus Viola, of many species. The violets are generally low, herbaceous plants, and the flowers of many of the species are blue, while others are white or yellow, or of several colors, as the pansy (Viola tricolor).

noun. The color of a violet, or that part of the spectrum farthest from red. It is the most refrangible part of the spectrum.

noun. In art, a color produced by a combination of red and blue in equal proportions; a bluish purple color.

noun. Any one of numerous species of small violet-colored butterflies belonging to Lycæna, or Rusticus, and allied genera.

noun. See under Corn.

noun. See Damewort.

noun. See under Dogtooth.

noun. an aquatic European herb (Hottonia palustris) with pale purplish flowers and pinnatifid leaves.

noun. A bluish-purple colour.

noun. Viola, a genus of fragrant plants with white, purple or yellow flowers.

noun. Any of several plants that look like the plants of the genus Viola but are taxonomically unrelated to them.

adjective. Having a bluish-purple colour.

noun. a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum

noun. any of numerous low-growing violas with small flowers

adjective. of a color intermediate between red and blue

"Not surprisingly, the word violet is derived from the flower of the same name via the French violette or viola, and is cognate with the Greek ion, from which the word iodine is derived."

Colours  acid violet  acid-violet  adder’s tongue  alizarin violet  

chromatic  

viola  violaceous  

African violet  dame's violet  dog violet  dogtooth violet  gentian violet  

inviolate  islet  ultraviolet  

amber  blossom  daisy  emerald  fern  

amethystine  lavender  lilac  livid  magenta