violet

[US]/ˈvaɪələt/
[UK]/ˈvaɪələt/
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Translation

n. a type of flower with small purple flowers, petals in shades of purple or blue, and a strong fragrance.

Phrases & Collocations

violet flower

deep violet color

violet fragrance

pale violet hue

crystal violet

ultra violet

violet light

violet red

shrinking violet

methyl violet

violet ray

gentian violet

Example Sentences

There are many violets in the garden.

The violet is a dainty spring flower.

Permanent violet RL is high-grade organic pigment of carbazole dioxathion.

a spray of mixed violets and primroses

an ointment that branded her with unsightly violet-coloured splotches.

violet-tinged flowers patterned the grassy banks.

dogtooth violet of western North America having bright yellow flowers.

Dorothy is no shrinking violet when it comes to expressing her views.

handsome violet-streaked wood of the kingwood tree; used especially in cabinetwork.

The submicro W and WC powder can be produced by using of violet tungstic.

Flowers pale violet or purple-violet, 3-5 cm.Lateral sepals 2, ovate-falcate, ca. 7 mm, 5-veined, inequilateral, apex acuminate.

Violet: Can secrete alexin of a kind of plant, can be inside shorter time kill the harmful to human body bacteria in air.

6 There were white cotton draperies and violet hangings, held by cords of crimson byssus from silver rings on marble pillars.

It takes mysterious and romantic fuchsine, gradual changing violet red, in all;it pleased both eye and mind.

A shrubby plant(Cedronella canariensis) in the mint family, native to Madeira and the Canary Islands, having a large, lilac-to-violet corolla with two lips.

" Violet said.That short man by this time was hopping mad and was furiously striking his club against the stone to produce a string of chaotic clinks.

I can’t imagine why a dynamic young woman like her is marrying a shrinking violet like him.

Pleochroism: distinct in strong colored gem varieties, kunzite is violet-purple/colorless and hiddenite is green to blue-green/colorless to pale green.

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