资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Violet \Vi"o*let\, a. [Cf. F. violet. See {Violet}, n.]
   Dark blue, inclining to red; bluish purple; having a color
   produced by red and blue combined.

   {Violet shell} (Zo["o]l.), any species of Ianthina; -- called
      also {violet snail}. See {Ianthina}.

   {Violet wood}, a name given to several kinds of hard purplish
      or reddish woods, as king wood, myall wood, and the wood
      of the {Andira violacea}, a tree of Guiana.