violet.

1. A small flowering plant with rounded or heart-shaped leaves, often producing purple, blue, or white flowers.

2. A color between blue and purple, or light near that part of the spectrum.

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Words that belong together

• wild violet
• sweet violet

On the page

A wild violet grew beside the broken step.

Usage notes

Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Singular violet; plural violets. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description. Commonness: moderately common.