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vi⋅o⋅let

  [vahy-uh-lit]
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–noun
1. any chiefly low, stemless or leafy-stemmed plant of the genus Viola, having purple, blue, yellow, white, or variegated flowers. Compare violet family.
2. any such plant except the pansy and the viola.
3. the flower of any native, wild species of violet, as distinguished from the pansy: the state flower of Illinois, New Jersey, and Rhode Island.
4. any of various similar plants of other genera.
5. reddish-blue, a color at the opposite end of the visible spectrum from red, an effect of light with a wavelength between 400 and 450 nm.
–adjective
6. of the color violet; reddish-blue: violet hats.
Origin:
1300–50; ME < OF violete, equiv. to viole (< L viola violet) + -ete -et

Vi⋅o⋅let

  [vahy-uh-lit]
–noun
a female given name.
Also, Vi⋅o⋅lette  [vahy-uh-let, vahy-uh-lit] , Vi⋅o⋅let⋅ta  [vahy-uh-let-uh] .
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vi·o·let   (vī'ə-lĭt)   
n.  
    1. 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.
    2. Any of several similar plants, such as the African violet.
  2. 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.

[Middle English, from Old French violete, diminutive of viole, from Latin viola.]
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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).

Note: The cultivated sweet violet is Viola odorata of Europe. The common blue violet of the eastern United States is V. cucullata; the sand, or bird-foot, violet is V. pedata.

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

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

4. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small violet-colored butterflies belonging to Lyc[ae]na, or Rusticus, and allied genera.

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.

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.

Violet shell (Zo["o]l.), 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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Language Translation for : violet
Spanish: violeta,
German: das Veilchen,
Japanese: すみれ
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violet 
c.1330, small plant with purplish-blue flowers, from O.Fr. violette, dim. of viole "violet," from L. viola, cognate with Gk. ion (see iodine), probably from a pre-I.E. Mediterranean language. The color sense (1370) developed from the flower.
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violet vi·o·let (vī'ə-lĭt)
n.

  1. 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.
  2. Any of a group of colors, reddish-blue in hue, that may vary in lightness and saturation.

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violet

see shrinking violet.

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