English words for 'plural of shrinking violet'
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- The color of most violets; the colour evoked by the shortest visible wavelengths between 380 and 435 nm, an additive tertiary colour.
- (UK dialect) Synonym of onion (“vegetable”).
- A plant or flower of the genus Viola, especially the fragrant Viola odorata; (inexact) similar-looking plants and flowers.
- Clothes and (ecclesiastical) vestments of such a colour.
- (perfumes) The characteristic scent of V. odorata.
- (figurative) A person thought to resemble V. odorata, especially in its beauty and delicacy.
- any of numerous low-growing violas with small flowers
- a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum
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- The color of most violets; the colour evoked by the shortest visible wavelengths between 380 and 435 nm, an additive tertiary colour.
- (UK dialect) Synonym of onion (“vegetable”).
- A plant or flower of the genus Viola, especially the fragrant Viola odorata; (inexact) similar-looking plants and flowers.
- Clothes and (ecclesiastical) vestments of such a colour.
- (perfumes) The characteristic scent of V. odorata.
- (figurative) A person thought to resemble V. odorata, especially in its beauty and delicacy.
- any of numerous low-growing violas with small flowers
- a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum