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VIOLACEOUS

Definitions: VIOLACEOUS

VIOLACEOUS

Adjective

1. 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.

2. Resembling violets in color; bluish purple.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Violaceous \Vi`o*la"ceous\, adjective. [Latin expression violaceus, from viola violet.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Crosswords: VIOLACEOUS

English words defined with "VIOLACEOUS": IonidiumSaint Martin's herb. (references)

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Modern Translations: VIOLACEOUS

Language Translations for "VIOLACEOUS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i vjollcës. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏بنفسجي اللون. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

теменужен, виолетов (amethystine), от семейството на теменугите. (various references)

   

Czech

  

fialový (Violet). (various references)

   

French

  

violet (Viola, Violet). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ιόχρουσ (mauve, violin). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ibolyaféle. (various references)

   

Italian

  

violaceo (mauvish). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iolaceousvay

   

Portuguese

  

violáceo, da família das violáceas. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

violaceu (lilac). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

фиолетовый (purple), фиалковый. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

u boji ljubičice, koji pripada ljubicama. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

violaceoso. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

фіолетовий, фіалковий (purple). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "VIOLACEOUS"

Words rhyming with "VIOLACEOUS" (pronounced 'Vi`o*la"ceous'): Acanthaceous, Acinaceous, Alliaceous, Alutaceous, Amarantaceous, Amentaceous, Ampullaceous, Amygdalaceous, Amylaceous, Anacardiaceous, Anonaceous, Apiaceous, Araceous, Arenaceous, Argillaceous, Arundinaceous, Asclepiadaceous, Atramentaceous, Aurantiaceous, Avenaceous, Bignoniaceous, Boraginaceous, Brassicaceous, Bromeliaceous, Bulbaceous, Butyraceous, Byssaceous, Cactaceous, Calcareo-siliceous, Campanulaceous, Camphoraceous, Capillaceous, Caryophyllaceous, Cepaceous, Ceraceous, Cetaceous, Chartaceous, Chylaceous, Cichoraceous, Cinchonaceous, Cineraceous, Confervaceous, Convolvulaceous, Corallaceous, Coriaceous, Corollaceous, Croceous, Crustaceous, Cucurbitaceous, Cycadaceous. (additional references)

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Anagrams: VIOLACEOUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: olivaceous.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-o-o-s-u-v"

-2 letters: vacuoles, vesicula, vocalise.

-3 letters: alcoves, celosia, coevals, coolies, vacuole, vesical.

-4 letters: aculei, alcove, avulse, calves, caules, caulis, cavies, cavils, clause, claves, clavus, clevis, cloves, coeval, coleus, colies, coolie, coulis, eluvia, loaves, locoes, looies, louies, olives, oscula, oscule, ovisac, ovules, silvae, sluice, social, solace, valise, values, vesica, violas, visual, vocals, voices, voiles.

-5 letters: aisle, alecs.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-l-o-o-s-u-v"
 

+3 letters: cavernicolous, vulcanologies.

 

+5 letters: cytomegalovirus, macroevolutions, overspeculation, uncontroversial.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: VIOLACEOUS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 49 4F 4C 41 43 45 4F 55 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...-    ..    ---    .-..    .-    -.-.    .    ---    ..-    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01001001 01001111 01001100 01000001 01000011 01000101 01001111 01010101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#73 &#79 &#76 &#65 &#67 &#69 &#79 &#85 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0049 004F 004C 0041 0043 0045 004F 0055 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

56434946353739495553

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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