the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Resembling violets in color; bluish purple.
adj. Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants, of which the violet is the type. It contains about twenty genera and two hundred and fifty species.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Of a violet color: purple or purplish; blue with a tinge of red.
Of, resembling, or pertaining to the Violarieæ (Violaceæ).
Word Usage
"My favorites were the toco toucan, motmot, currasows, Yucatan jay, cinnamon-colored cuckoo, and pileated woodpecker and violaceous trogon (a relative of the resplendent quetzal)."