Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of a violet color: purple or purplish; blue with a tinge of red.
- Of, resembling, or pertaining to the Violarieæ (Violaceæ).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Resembling violets in color; bluish purple.
- adjective (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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective mycology
violet colored.
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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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).
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And his violaceous lips gave forth a breath more nauseous than the exhalation from a corpse.
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+Gills+ adnate, 2 to 3 lines broad, somewhat distant, slightly serrulated, of a peculiar ashy violaceous color, at length slightly cinnamon from the spores.
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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.
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The administration of the salicylate of soda modified in degree this violaceous odor.
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The administration of the salicylate of soda modified in degree this violaceous odor.
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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.
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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.
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It is usually superficial, has thin, red, undermined edges of a violaceous color, and an irregular base with granulations covered scantily with pus.
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