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violet adjective. LME.
[Old & mod. French, attrib. use of VIOLET noun.]
Of or resembling the colour of a violet; bluish-purple.
violet bee, violet carpenter bee a large violet-coloured carpenter bee, Xylocopa violacea, which is found in southern Europe. violet crab a violet-coloured land crab, Gecarcinus ruricola, which is found on the Caribbean islands. violet-ear any of several Central and S. American hummingbirds of the genus Colibri, which have extended glittering purple ear coverts. violet-eared waxbill the common grenadier, Uraeginthus granatina, which has violet ear coverts and is found in southern Africa. violet-green swallow a dark-backed swallow with green and violet glosses, Tachycineta thalassina, found in western N. America. violet ray noun & adjective (a) noun a ray of violet (or ultraviolet) light; (b) adjective designating a device that produces or uses violet (or ultraviolet) light. violet sea-snail = violet snail below. violet shift = blue shift s.v. BLUE adjective. violet snail (the shell of) any of various small gastropod molluscs of the genus Janthina, which have thin violet-coloured shells and cling to floating rafts of bubbles in warm seas.
A. Sillitoe Her opened..coat showed a violet blouse underneath.