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noun

Viola n. (Bot.) A genus of polypetalous herbaceous plants, including all kinds of violets.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Viola" Quotes from Famous Books

... by Rosalind. Whereas there is hardly a play that has not a perfect woman in it, steadfast in grave hope and errorless purpose: Cordelia, Desdemona, Isabella, Hermione, Imogen, Queen Katherine, Perdita, Silvia, Viola, Rosalind, Helena, and last, and perhaps loveliest, Virgilia, are all faultless: conceived in the highest ...

— Harvard Classics Volume 28 - Essays English and American • Various

... along all right in Omaha, but finally she gave herself up to the police there. She thinks perhaps she might go up to the people in Wisconsin who wanted to adopt her. In any case, she can do a great deal better than Viola B. who ran away from New York and got caught, and was so much talked ...

— Pathology of Lying, Etc. • William and Mary Healy

... merits its popularity for use in beds and borders. It is perfectly hardy, the habit is good, and it continues in bloom for several months in the year. The treatment prescribed for Pansy is also suitable for Viola. ...

— The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots, 16th Edition • Sutton and Sons

Words linked to "Viola" : Viola striata, herb, violet family, field pansy, Viola ocellata, Viola odorata, love-in-idleness, Violaceae, viola d'amore, Viola reichenbachiana, Viola pubescens, Viola sylvatica, Viola canadensis, Johnny-jump-up, Viola rostrata, Viola blanda, Viola cornuta, Viola canina, family Violaceae, pink of my John, bowed stringed instrument, dilleniid dicot genus, Viola pedata, Viola tricolor hortensis, violet, Viola conspersa