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Of a violet color: purple or purplish; blue with a tinge of red. Red, sometimes violaceous. Buck's Handbook of Med. Sciences, V. 77.
Of, resembling, or pertaining to the Violarieæ (Violaceæ).
Violaceous plantain-eater Musophaga violacea, a turakoo of West Africa from the Cameroons to Senegambia, 17½ inches long, having the general plumage violet-blue, washed with a greenish gloss on some parts; the quills and crown crimson; a bare scarlet patch about the eye, below this a white stripe; the bill orangered, fading to yellow on the frontal half; the eyes brown; the feet black; and the head not crested. The only other species of the genus, M. rossæ, is rather larger, crested, without any white stripe, and has the bare circumorbital area edged with violet-blue. It inhabits equatorial Africa. M. violacea was so named by Isert in 1789, when the genus was instituted, and is the touraco violet ou masqué of Levaillant, 1806; M. rossæ was named by Gould in 1851.

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The administration of the salicylate of soda modified in degree this violaceous odor. — Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
In color they are pink, red, or violaceous. — Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
The papules are usually pea-sized, flattened, and of a dark red or violaceous color. — Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
The nodules gradually enlarge, the skin becomes reddish, violaceous or livid in color. — Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
At first a pale-pink or dull, violaceous red, they later become yellowish or coppery. — Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine

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from Latin violaceus, of a violet color, from viola, a violet: see violet.

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