violet reddish blue | a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum |
shy person shrinking violet | someone who shrinks from familiarity with others |
damask violet Dame's violet sweet rocket Hesperis matronalis | long cultivated herb having flowers whose scent is more pronounced in the evening, naturalized throughout Europe to Siberia and into North America |
water violet Hottonia palustris | featherfoil of Europe and western Asia having submerged and floating leaves and violet flowers |
Persian violet Exacum affine | perennial cultivated especially as a houseplant for its fragrant bluish to dark lavender flowers |
marsh gentian calathian violet Gentiana pneumonanthe | perennial Eurasian gentian with sky-blue funnel-shaped flowers of damp open heaths |
Violaceae family Violaceae violet family | a family of order Parietales including the genera Viola, Hybanthus, Hymenanthera, Melicytus |
violet | any of numerous low-growing violas with small flowers |
American dog violet Viola conspersa | violet of eastern North America having pale violet to white flowers |
sweet white violet white violet woodland white violet Viola blanda | short-stemmed violet of eastern North America having fragrant purple-veined white flowers |
Canada violet tall white violet white violet Viola canadensis | tall North American perennial with heart-shaped leaves and white flowers with purple streaks |
dog violet heath violet Viola canina | Old World leafy-stemmed blue-flowered violet |
horned violet tufted pansy Viola cornuta | European viola with an unusually long corolla spur |
two-eyed violet heartsease Viola ocellata | violet of Pacific coast of North America having white petals tinged with yellow and deep violet |
sweet violet garden violet English violet Viola odorata | European violet typically having purple to white flowers, widely naturalized |
bird's-foot violet pansy violet Johnny-jump-up wood violet Viola pedata | common violet of the eastern United States with large pale blue or purple flowers resembling pansies |
downy yellow violet Viola pubescens | violet of eastern North America having softly pubescent leaves and stems and clear yellow flowers with brown-purple veins |
long-spurred violet Viola rostrata | violet of eastern North America having lilac-purple flowers with a long slender spur |
pale violet striped violet cream violet Viola striata | leafy-stemmed violet of eastern North America having large white or creamy flowers faintly marked with purple |
hedge violet wood violet Viola sylvatica Viola reichenbachiana | common European violet that grows in woods and hedgerows |
dogtooth violet dogtooth dog's-tooth violet | perennial woodland spring-flowering plant, widely cultivated |
white dogtooth violet white dog's-tooth violet blonde lilian Erythronium albidum | North American dogtooth having solitary white flowers with yellow centers and blue or pink exteriors |
violet wood sorrel Oxalis violacea | perennial herb of eastern North America with palmately compound leaves and usually rose-purple flowers |
violet suksdorfia Suksdorfia violaceae | slender delicate plant with wide roundish deeply lobed leaves and deep pink to violet funnel-shaped flowers, British Columbia to northern Oregon and west to Idaho and Montana |
African violet Saintpaulia ionantha | tropical African plant cultivated as a houseplant for its violet or white or pink flowers |
bush violet browallia | any of several herbs of the genus Browallia cultivated for their blue or violet or white flowers |
violet-flowered petunia Petunia integrifolia | herb or small shrublet having solitary violet to roseed flowers |
visual aphasia alexia word blindness | inability to perceive written words |
blindness sightlessness cecity | the state of being blind or lacking sight |
legal blindness | vision that is or worse in both eyes ( vision is the ability to see atfeet what a normal eye can see at feet) |
color blindness colour blindness color vision deficiency colour vision deficiency | genetic inability to distinguish differences in hue |
red-green dichromacy red-green color blindness red-green colour blindness | confusion of red and green |
deuteranopia Daltonism green-blindness | dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to green light resulting in an inability to distinguish green and purplished |
protanopia red-blindness | dichromacy characterized by lowered sensitivity to long wavelengths of light resulting in an inability to distinguish red and purplish blue |
yellow-blue dichromacy yellow-blue color blindness | confusion of yellow and blue |
tetartanopia yellow-blindness | a form of dichromacy characterized by lowered sensitivity to yellow light, so rare that its existence has been questioned |
tritanopia blue-blindness | rare form of dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to blue light resulting in an inability to distinguish blue and yellow |
moon blindness mooneye | recurrent eye inflammation in horses, sometimes resulting in blindness |
onchocerciasis river blindness | infestation with slender threadlike roundworms (filaria) deposited under the skin by the bite of black fleas, when the eyes are involved it can result in blindness, common in Africa and tropical America |
hemeralopia day blindness | inability to see clearly in bright light |
nyctalopia night blindness moon blindness | inability to see clearly in dim light, due to a deficiency of vitamin A or to a retinal disorder |
snowblindness snow-blindness | temporary blindness caused by exposure to sunlight reflected from snow or ice |
figural blindness | inability to see shapes and contours |
gentian violet crystal violet | a green crystal (violet in water) used as a dye or stain or bactericide or fungicide or anthelmintic or burn treatment |
blue-violet bluish-violet | of violet tinted with blue |
lilac-blue violet-blue | of blue tinged with lavender |
lilac-pink lavender-pink violet-pink | of pink tinged with lavender |
purple violet purplish | of a color intermediate between red and blue |
red-violet reddish-violet | of violet tinged with red |
violet-tinged violet-tinted | of something that is tinged with violet |