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violaceous

violaceous


  1  definition  found 
 
  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.