Hypertext Webster Gateway: "violaceous"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Violaceous \Vi`o*la"ceous\, a. [L. violaceus, fr. viola a
violet.]
1. Resembling violets in color; bluish purple.
2. (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.
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