crested myna
Acridotheres tristis | dark brown crested bird of southeastern Asia |
tree swift
crested swift | birds of southeast Asia and East Indies differing from true swifts in having upright crests and nesting in trees |
| crested screamer | distinguished from the horned screamer by a feathery crest on the back of the head |
crested cariama
seriema Cariama cristata | Brazilian Cariama, sole representative of the genus Cariama |
great crested grebe
Podiceps cristatus | large Old World grebe with black ear tufts |
rock hopper
crested penguin | small penguin of the Falkland Islands and New Zealand |
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 |
crested coral root
Hexalectris spicata | orchid with yellowish-brown flowers with dark veins, southeastern Arizona to the eastern United States |
water violet
Hottonia palustris | featherfoil of Europe and western Asia having submerged and floating leaves and violet flowers |
crested wheatgrass
crested wheat grass
fairway crested wheat grass
Agropyron cristatum | Eurasian grass grown in United States great plains area for forage and erosion control |
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 |
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 |
| crested plumed | (of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume |
crested topknotted
tufted | (of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head, often used in combination, golden crested, crested iris, crested oriole, tufted duck, tufted loosestrife |
| crested | bearing an heraldic device |
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 |
| violet-black | of black tinged with violet |
violet-colored
violet-coloured
violet-flowered | having a violet color |
| violet-purple | light violet and dark purple |
| violet-scented | smelling of violets |
| violet-streaked | having streaks of violet color |