violescent (violesent)

[L. viola, a violet, a purple color (see violet1 ), + -escent.] Tending to a violet color. violet1 (vi'ō-let), n. and a. [Early mod. E. also violette; IMG:content-1861.png:[blocks in formation] 1, Stemmed Violet ( Viola tricolor , var. arvensis): St , stem. 2, Stemle Violet ( Viola palmata , var. cucullata ): s, scape. quality of the sensation it excites, is one of the three fundamental colors of Young's theory. It is nearly complementary to the color of brightne , so that deep shades generally appear by contrast of a violet tinge; and the light of a rainy day, and still more of a sudden tempest, has a violet appearance. Even the pure yellow of the spectrum, so reduced as to be barely visible, looks violet beside the same light in great intensity. 3. Any one of the many different small blue or violet butterflies of Lycæna, Polyommatus, and allied genera. - Acid violet, a coal-tar color used in dyeing, being the sodium salt of di-methyl-rosaniline tri sulphonic acid. It is applicable to wool and silk.-Aniline violet. Same as mauve. - Arrow-leafed violet, Viola sagittata of the eastern half of the United States, much resembling the common blue violet, except in the form of its leaves. - Bird's-foot violet, a low stemle species, Viola pedata, of the same region, having pedately divided leaves, and fine large light-blue or whitish flowers, yellow-eyed with the stamens. A variety is the pansy violet. - Calathi an violet, the marsh-gentian, Gentian a Pneumonanthe. According to Gerard, the true plant was a Campanula. Britten and Holland. - Canada violet, Viola Can a dens is, a species common northward and in the mountains of eastern North America, having an upright stem a foot or two high, and white petals purplish beneath.-Common or early blue violet, Viola palmata, especially in the variety cucullata, very common in moist ground in North America. The leaves are more or le palmately lobed, or in the variety only crenate. The size and shape of the leaves are variable, as also the color of the petals, which are deep or pale-blue, or purple, or sometimes white or variegated. - Corn-violet. See Specular i a.-Crystal violet. See crystal. - Damask violet. Same as dame's-violet. Dog-tooth violet, a plant of the genus Erythronium. The yellow dog-tooth violet is E. Americanum. - Dog-violet, Viola can in a of the northern Old World, and in the variety Muhlenbergii of North America. It is a stemmed violet a few inches high, with light-violet petals and a short cylindrical spur. - English violet. See sweet violet. - Fringe or fringed violet, Arthropodium paniculatum and Thysanotus tube rosus, liliaceous plants of Australia with rather small panicled blue flowers, those of the former with crisped inner segments.-Green violet. See Ionidium. Hoffmann's violet. Same as dahlia, 3.- Hooded violet, a plant of the tropical American genus Corynostylis ( Calyptrion ), related to the violets. - Horned violet (or pansy), Viola cornuta of the Pyrenees, having pale-blue or mauve-colored sweet-scented spurred flowers, produced abundantly and continuously, long cultivated in Europe, and forming an excellent border or bedding-plant.-Lance-leafed violet, the American Viola lanceolata, with small white flowers.-Long-spurred violet, Viola rostrata of the eastern and central United States, having a low stem and pale violet flowers with a slender spur. - Manganese violet, in ceram., the purple color obtained by the use of manganese.- March violet, the sweet violet. Britten and Hol land. [Local, Eng.] - Marian's violet. Same as mariet. -Marsh-violet. (a) Viola palustris, a species with small flowers marked with purple: in both hemisphere found northwards violet, an artificially prepared oxid of iron, used as a pigment by artists. It resembles Indian red, but is darker in color. Also called mineral purple. - Mercury's violet. Same as Marian's violet. - Naphthalene violet. Same as naphtha me in. - Neapolitan violet. See sweet violet.-New fast violet. Same as gallocyanine. New Holland violet. Same as spurle violet. - Pale violet, Viola striata of central and eastern North America, a stemmed species having white petals lined with purple.Pansy violet, a local name for the variety bicolor of the bird's-foot violet, Viola pedata. The two upper petals are of a deep-violet color and as if velvety. Also velvet violet. - Paris violet. Same as methyl - violet.-Perkin's violet. Same as indisin. Primrose-leafed violet, Viola primulæfolia of the eastern United States, with small white flowers. - Rosaniline violet a coal-tar color used in dyeing, being the hydro chlorids of mono and di-phenyl rosaniline. They produce a dull but moderately fast violet color on cotton, wool, and silk. Also called phenyl violet, spirit violet, Parma violet, imperial violet, etc. - Round leafed violet, Viola rotund i folia of cold woods in eastern North America, a species with small yellow flowers, the leaves at first erect, roundish-ovate, an inch broad, in summer 3 or 4 inches long, lying flat on the ground, shining above. - Sand violet, Viola arenaria, a small tufted stemle species with pale-blue flowers, found in the northern Old World. - Spurle violet, specifically, Viola hederacea of Austral asia, once cla ed as a distinct genus Erpetion, a tufted or widely creeping plant with rather small blue flowers. - Spurred violet, a pretty South violet European species, Viola calcar at a, allied to the horned violet, and having large purple flowers, which in the Alps sometimes form sheets of color. - Stemle violets, that cla of violets in which the stem does not rise above the ground, the flowers being borne on scapes. See cut above. - Stemmed violets, that cla of violets which have a leafy stem and usually large stipules. See cut above. -Sweet violet, a favorite sweet-scented violet, Viola odo rata, native in Europe and Asiatic Ru ia: in America often called English violet. It is a stemle species with bluish purple or white flowers, cultivated in many varieties, single and double, and produced in large quantities for the market, yielding also a perfumers' oil. A continuously blooming variety is much grown about Paris. The Neapolitan is a well-known variety with double light-blue flowers, now surpa ed by the "Marie Louise." The flowers of the "czar" are very large and sweet; those of the "queen-of-violets," white and very large; etc. - Tongue violet. See Schweiggeria. - Tooth-violet. Same as coral wort, 1.-Tree-violet, Viola arbores cens, a shrubby species with erect branching stems, growing from crevices of rocks in the western Mediterranean region.-Tricolored violet, the pansy, Viola tricolor.- Trinity violet, the spiderwort, Tradescantia Virginica, from its blue flowers and time of blooming. Britten and Holland. [Local, Eng.]-Twin-flowered violet. See Viola. - Velvet violet. See pansy violet, above. - Violet family, the plant-order Violarieæ. - Violet-powder, starch reduced to a very fine powder, and scented with orris-powder or other perfume: used for nursery and other purposes. (See also bog - violet, hedge - violet, horse - violet, methyl - violet, water violet, wood - violet.) II. a . Having the color of violet, a deep blue tinged with red. - Violet bee, a European carpenter bee, Xylocopa violacea . See cut under carpenter -bee.Violet carmine, a brilliant bluish-purple pigment obtained from the roots of the alkanet, Alkanna ( Anchusa ) tinct or i a. It is little used, as it changes color rapidly on exposure.-Violet land-crab, the West Indian crab Ge carcinus ruricola. - Violet quartz, amethyst. - Violet sapphire, schorl, etc. See the nouns. - Violet tanager, Euphonia violacea , partly of the color said.