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 Vi·o·let n.
 1. Bot. 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).
 Note: ☞ The cultivated sweet violet is Viola odorata of Europe. The common blue violet of the eastern United States is Viola cucullata; the sand, or bird-foot, violet is Viola pedata.
 2. The color of a violet, or that part of the spectrum farthest from red. It is the most refrangible part of the spectrum.
 3. In art, a color produced by a combination of red and blue in equal proportions; a bluish purple color.
 4. Zool. Any one of numerous species of small violet-colored butterflies belonging to Lycaena, or Rusticus, and allied genera.
 Corn violet. See under Corn.
 Dame's violet. Bot. See Damewort.
 Dogtooth violet. Bot. See under Dogtooth.
 Water violet Bot., an aquatic European herb (Hottonia palustris) with pale purplish flowers and pinnatifid leaves.

 Dame·wort n. Bot. A cruciferrous plant (Hesperis matronalis), remarkable for its fragrance, especially toward the close of the day; -- called also rocket and dame's violet.
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 Dame's violet
      n : long-cultivated herb having flowers whose scent is more
          pronounced in the evening; naturalized throughout Europe
          to Siberia and into North America [syn: damask violet,
          sweet rocket, Hesperis matronalis]