violets in English

noun
1
a herbaceous plant of temperate regions, typically having purple, blue, or white five-petaled flowers, one of which forms a landing pad for pollinating insects.
Colourful wild flowers sprung up by the roadside, purple violets and white daisies dotted among the grass.
2
a bluish-purple color seen at the end of the spectrum opposite red.
He was splendidly dressed in the royal scarlet and bluish violet .

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1. Roses are red, violets...

2. Roses are red, violets are blue.

3. Roses are red Violets are blue

4. Not all candidates are shrinking violets.

5. From Attis' blood sprang the first violets.

6. Why doesn’t it smell of potatoes or violets?

7. The woman carried a bouquet of dried violets.

8. Why doesn't it smell of potatoes or violets?

9. The caterpillars feed on violets including Viola glabella.

10. Plants you could use include Cowslips, primroses, violets, ivy, …

11. The violets of Japan are, as a rule, odorless.

12. Cockerels, cowslips and violets are disappearing from many people's lives.

13. Cowslip Cockerels, Cowslips and violets are disappearing from many people's lives.

14. I would like to know how many African Violets are produced every year or …

15. All Lady Banks' roses are said to smell of violets to varying degrees.

16. Le Clou de HW-702B est l'unité UVC (ultra-violets clarificateur) intégrée.

17. There were certainly forget-me-nots, violets, white wood anemones, huge numbers of dandelions and some buttercups.

18. She wore her corsage of violets and primroses pinned to the lapel of her grey suit.

19. The most familiar members of the family to gardeners are the African Violets in the genus Saintpaulia.

20. The aroma is a complex mix of blackcurrant with liquor ice and violets with hints of a cigar box.

21. DescriptionAbout the Book The Acaulescent blue violets have been the most problematic group within the genus Viola

22. Attributed to Eudokia is a dictionary of history and mythology, called Ἰωνιά (i.e. Collection or Bed of Violets).

23. Bluets and White Violets - A 'Salt Marsh Pottery' Bowl - Hand-painted - Flowers - Decorative Pottery - Wall Hanging - Gardener Gift TheBrownSuitcase

24. T he Achimenes plant is a member of the Gesneriad family and closely related to gloxinias and African violets

25. By 1662, a coffeehouse in London advertised the availability of "sherbets made in Turkie of Lemons, Roses and Violets perfumed".

26. Achimenes is a member of the Gesneriad family, the same as African violets and gloxinias, and have similar growing requirements

27. It shows guests at one of his extravagant dinner parties smothered under a mass of "violets and other flowers" dropped from above.

28. Wild garlic, woodruff, ivy, wild strawberry and violets provide the splendorous colour that gives the wood one of its many Appealingqualities.

29. It is a silky, smooth wine with aromas of fruit (morello) violets and spices. The mouth is powerful and well-rounded.

30. How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew. Ralph Waldo Emerson 

31. The path that left the glade was steep and narrow and spread across with ivy and clumps of mauve and white violets.

32. Wines from this varietal are dark in color with blackcurrant aromas with hints of violets. Black fruit flavors combine with herbaceous brambly flavors.

33. 4 Wines from this varietal are dark in color with blackcurrant aromas with hints of violets. Black fruit flavors combine with herbaceous brambly flavors.

34. African violets are quite susceptible to rot, however, so if your home is particularly humid, you may not want to use the bulb

35. In spring, the woods offer blue, white and yellow violets, hepaticas, Dutchman's breeches, woodland phlox, wood geraniums, Bellworts, jack-in-the-pulpits and graceful ferns

36. The olive orchards of Sampaolo are just so many wildernesses of wild flowers: violets, anemones, narcissus; irises, white ones and purple ones; daffodils, which we call Asphodels; hyacinths, tulips, arums, orchids -- …

37. Confit, for instance, comes from the French word “ confire ” which literally means ‘to preserve.’ So, when you see that word tied to things like duck or violets, you can translate …

38. "The notion that these (powerful) groups will be shrinking violets who might get Criticized from spending and it might drive them from the public square is a bit much to take."

39. These are the best sites for observing spring favorites, such as trilliums, Bellworts, black cohosh, blue cohosh, Solomon’s seal, trout lily, bloodroot, wild ginger, maidenhair fern, Jack-in-the-pulpit, phlox, spring beauty, and violets.

40. It is a convenient and inexpensive method of propagation, not possible for all plants but used generally for grapes; chrysanthemums; verbenas (stem Cuttings); blackberries (root Cuttings); African violets (leaf Cuttings); and for many other plants.

41. He sent a bouquet of twelve red roses and a card: "Roses are red, Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet, And so are you." How Corny is that!· (obsolete) Producing corn or grain

42. Related to gloxinias and African violets, Achimenes (Hot Water Plant) are rhizomatous herbaceous perennials with scaly rhizomes producing trailing stems clothed with attractive, fuzzy leaves in shades of bright or dark green, sometimes with bronze or burgundy undertones

43. When Josephine passed away, he planted violets at her grave, and just before his exile, he went back to that tomb site, picked some of those flowers, entombed them in a locket and wore them until the day he died.

44. ‘Wildflowers: fire pink, several kinds of blue violets, pink and yellow lady's slippers, goldenrod, blue-stem goldenrod, blue asters, and Bedstraws.’ More example sentences ‘Magnificent displays of bluebells are out just now and the ground vegetation also has an abundance of foxgloves, heath bedstraw and …

45. ‘Wildflowers: fire pink, several kinds of blue violets, pink and yellow lady's slippers, goldenrod, blue-stem goldenrod, blue asters, and Bedstraws.’ More example sentences ‘Magnificent displays of bluebells are out just now and the ground vegetation also has an abundance of foxgloves, heath bedstraw and …

46. Mixing the old with the new, she leaves established azaleas, hostas and other conventional garden plants but surrounds them with common milkweed, swamp milkweed, butterfly weed, echinacea, coneflowers, Bonesets, blue mistflowers, cardinal flower, violets, red-twig dogwoods, ironweed, asters, pussytoes and many more species that feed

47. Bolbonac or the Satin-Flower hath hard and round stalks, dividing themselves into many other small branches, beset with leaves like Dame's Violets, or Queen's Gillyflowers, somewhat broad and snipped about the edges, and in fashion almost like Sauce-Alone, or Jack-by-the-hedge, but that they are longer and sharper pointed.

48. Mild and gentle, as he was brave- , When the sweetest love of his life he gave To simple things- : Where the violets grew Blue as the eyes they were likened to, The touches of his hands have strayed As reverently as his lips have prayed: When the little brown thrush that harshly Chirred Was dear to him as the mocking-bird; And he pitied as much