Definitions
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).
Wiktionary
- adj. mycology violet colored.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Resembling violets in color; bluish purple.
- adj. (Bot.) 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.
Examples
“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).”
“The work includes a life like copy of the official Chinon Parchment, violaceous stains and all.”
Vatican Parchment Detailing 14th Century Trial Of Templars Discredits Da Vinci Code
“And his violaceous lips gave forth a breath more nauseous than the exhalation from a corpse.”
“+Gills+ adnate, 2 to 3 lines broad, somewhat distant, slightly serrulated, of a peculiar ashy violaceous color, at length slightly cinnamon from the spores.”
“Weals, pustules, carbuncles, parotides, violaceous tumours, black swellings, are all respectable words, which have their true and legitimate signification: but I say that they dont affect the question at all.”
“The administration of the salicylate of soda modified in degree this violaceous odor.”
“Usually the disease begins as one or several rounded, circumscribed, pin-head - to pea-sized lesions; slightly scaly, somewhat elevated, and of a pinkish, reddish or violaceous color.”
“In some instances it does, but the irregular and angular outline, the slightly-umbilicated, flattened, smooth or scaly summits, and the dull-red or violaceous color, the history and course, of lichen planus, will serve to differentiate.”
“It is usually superficial, has thin, red, undermined edges of a violaceous color, and an irregular base with granulations covered scantily with pus.”
“As a rule, not, as the features of the disease -- the sharply circumscribed outline, the reddish or violaceous color, the elevated border, the tendency to central depression and atrophy, the plugged up or patulous sebaceous ducts, the adherent grayish or yellowish scales, together with the region attacked (usually the nose and cheeks) -- are characteristic.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘violaceous’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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phrontistery-v
from phrontistery.info
vaccary, vaccimulgence, vaccine, vacillate, vadelect, vade-mecum, vadimony, vadose, vafrous, vagient, vagile, vagility and 396 more...
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Archaic Colours
Words for colours that have fallen out of use.
aeneous, croceate, cretaceous, cramoisy, corbeau, coquelicot, coccineous, claret, cinerious, chrysochlorous, chlorochrous, cesious and 128 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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Bird Wirds: Adjectives
Adjectives used in actual (non-taxonomic) bird names, past and present.
roseate, glossy, whooping, neotropic, pelagic, ferruginous, crested, whiskered, marbled, tufted, horned, eared and 818 more...
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Color adjectives
A complement to Chromonyms and Chromonyms 2, which are restricted to nouns that have appeared in at least one dictionary. If a word can be either a noun or an adjective, I list it as a noun. This l...
hyacinthine, griseous, glaucous, verdant, virescent, amaranthine, miniaceous, rubiginous, ferruginous, ruddy, caesious, cyanotic and 214 more...
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itsmemandy's Words
crabwise, incognito, congeal, coagulate, incinerate, immolate, appease, acquiesce, redux, secrecy, atria, shakuhachi and 114 more...
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Colors
cerise, carnelian, florid, claret, watchet, rosaceous, coquelicot, vermilion, celadon, nacreous, lapis, viridescent and 132 more...
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Of Color
chartreuse, cerise, flaxen, azure, viridescent, sable, mauve, mulberry, violaceous, orchid, lilac, puce and 41 more...
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unusual color-related words
Not your typical red, blue, steel grey or even burnt umber.
glaucous, fuscous, clinquant, cerulean, falu red, puce, amaranth, cerise, vermilion, heliotrope, mountbatten pink, sangria and 54 more...
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hideehogal's Words
viridian, vermillion, concertina, cerulean, mishegosh, mystical, violaceous, scintilla, piquant, stroopwafel, quagmire, reticulated and 52 more...
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Great Color Names
obsidian, vermillion, cardinal, ultramarine, chartreuse, puce, taupe, sable, slate, cerise, garnet, mauve and 88 more...
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modifier
belletristic, violaceous, viridescent, sea foam, mauve, chartreuse, stony, redux
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