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- a herbaceous plant of temperate regions, typically having purple, blue, or white five-petalled flowers, one petal of which forms a landing pad for pollinating insects堇菜, 紫罗兰。
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- Genus Viola, family Violaceae (the violet family): many species, including the dog violet and sweet violet.堇菜属, 堇菜科：多种, 包括里文堇菜和香堇。参见
VIOLA2 .
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- used in names of similar-flowered plants of other families, e.g. African violet.［用作开相似花的其他科植物名称, 如African violet］。
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- mass noun a bluish-purple colour seen at the end of the spectrum opposite red紫罗兰色, 紫色。
- of a bluish-purple colour紫罗兰色的, 紫色的。
词源
Middle English: from Old French violette, diminutive of viole, from Latin viola 'violet'.