Vi·o·let a. Dark blue, inclining to red; bluish purple; having a color produced by red and blue combined.
Violet shell Zool., any species of Ianthina; -- called also violet snail. See Ianthina.
Violet wood, a name given to several kinds of hard purplish or reddish woods, as king wood, myall wood, and the wood of the Andira violacea, a tree of Guiana.
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