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The gossamer-winged butterflies; a family of small butterflies, including the hairstreaks, violets, and theclas.
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The color of a violet, or that part of the spectrum farthest from red. It is the most refrangible part of the spectrum.
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Dark blue, inclining to red; bluish purple; having a color produced by red and blue combined.
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A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.
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A European bird (Corvus frugilegus) resembling the crow, but smaller. It is black, with purple and violet reflections. The base of the beak and the region around it are covered with a rough, scabrous skin, which in old birds is whitish. It is gregarious in its habits. The name is also applied to related Asiatic species.
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Resembling violets in color; bluish purple.
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Tending to a violet color; violascent.
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Any one of numerous species of small violet-colored butterflies belonging to Lycaena, or Rusticus, and allied genera.
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A dyestuff of the induline group, made from aniline, and used as a substitute for indigo in dyeing wool and silk a violet-blue or a gray-blue color.
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In art, a color produced by a combination of red and blue in equal proportions; a bluish purple color.
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Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitroso derivative of barbituric acid. It is obtained as a white or yellow crystalline substance, and forms characteristic yellow, blue, and violet salts.
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A very handsome American butterfly (Polygonia interrogationis). Its wings are mottled with various shades of red and brown and have violet tips.
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Lying outside the visible spectrum at its violet end; -- said of rays more refrangible than the extreme violet rays of the spectrum.
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A small beaklike process or extension of some part; a small rostrum; as, the rostellum of the stigma of violets, or of the operculum of many mosses; the rostellum on the head of a tapeworm.
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A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum.
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A pale yellow amorphous substance of alkaloidal nature and emetic properties, said to have been extracted from the root and foliage of the violet (Viola).
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Any plant or flower of the genus Viola, of many species. The violets are generally low, herbaceous plants, and the flowers of many of the species are blue, while others are white or yellow, or of several colors, as the pansy (Viola tricolor).
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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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A genus of polypetalous herbaceous plants, including all kinds of violets.
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