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Resembling violets in color; bluish purple.

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  1. a. Resembling violets in color; bluish purple.
  2. a. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants, of which theviolet is the type. It contains about twenty genera and two hundredand fifty species.
  5. a. Resembling violets in color; bluish purple. a. 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.