| 单词 | violet |
| 释义 | violet /vuy"euh lit/, n. 1. any chiefly low, stemless or leafy-stemmed plant of the genus Viola, having purple, blue, yellow, white, or variegated flowers. Cf. 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. adj. 6. of the color violet; reddish-blue: violet hats. [1300-50; ME < OF violete, equiv. to viole ( < L viola violet) + -ete -ET] |
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