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Wood violet   /wʊd vˈaɪəlɪt/   Listen
Wood violet

noun
1.
Common European violet that grows in woods and hedgerows.  Synonyms: hedge violet, Viola reichenbachiana, Viola sylvatica.
2.
Common violet of the eastern United States with large pale blue or purple flowers resembling pansies.  Synonyms: bird's-foot violet, Johnny-jump-up, pansy violet, Viola pedata.





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"Wood violet" Quotes from Famous Books



... Violet. "Hirta," Flora Danica, 618, "In fruticetis raro." A true wood violet, full but dim in purple. Sowerby, 894, makes it paler. The leaves very pure and severe in the Danish one;—longer in the English. "Clothed on both sides with ...
— Proserpina, Volume 2 - Studies Of Wayside Flowers • John Ruskin


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