VIOLET

Definitions of violet in various dictionaries:

noun - any of numerous low-growing violas with small flowers

noun - a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum

adj - of a color intermediate between red and blue

Any of various low-growing herbs of the genus Viola, having short-spurred, irregular flowers that are characteristically purplish-blue but sometimes yellow or white.

Any of several similar plants, such as the African violet.

The hue of the short-wave end of the visible spectrum, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 380 to 420 nanometers; any of a group of colors, reddish-blue in hue, that may vary in lightness and saturation.

noun - a flowering plant