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violet
(mass) | violet
- fialová |
violet
(encz) | violet,fialka |
violet
(encz) | violet,fialový adj: |
violet
(encz) | violet,violka n: Zdeněk Brož |
Violet
(gcide) | Violet \Vi"o*let\, n. [F. violette a violet (cf. violet
violet-colored), dim. of OF. viole a violet, L. viola; akin
to Gr. ?. Cf. Iodine.]
1. (Bot.) 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).
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Note: The cultivated sweet violet is Viola odorata of
Europe. The common blue violet of the eastern United
States is Viola cucullata; the sand, or bird-foot,
violet is Viola pedata.
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2. The color of a violet, or that part of the spectrum
farthest from red. It is the most refrangible part of the
spectrum.
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3. In art, a color produced by a combination of red and blue
in equal proportions; a bluish purple color. --Mollett.
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4. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small
violet-colored butterflies belonging to Lycaena, or
Rusticus, and allied genera.
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Corn violet. See under Corn.
Dame's violet. (Bot.) See Damewort.
Dogtooth violet. (Bot.) See under Dogtooth.
Water violet (Bot.), an aquatic European herb ({Hottonia
palustris}) with pale purplish flowers and pinnatifid
leaves.
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Violet
(gcide) | Violet \Vi"o*let\, a. [Cf. F. violet. See Violet, n.]
Dark blue, inclining to red; bluish purple; having a color
produced by red and blue combined.
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Violet shell (Zool.), any species of Ianthina; -- called
also violet snail. See Ianthina.
Violet wood, 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.
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violet
(wn) | violet
adj 1: of a color intermediate between red and blue [syn:
purple, violet, purplish]
n 1: any of numerous low-growing violas with small flowers
2: a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum [syn:
violet, reddish blue] |
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