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viola noun1. LME.
[Latin = violet, later used as a genus name.]
A violet. Also fig. rare. LME-L15.
Any plant of the genus Viola (family Violaceae), comprising the violets and pansies, which are characterized by irregular five-petalled flowers (the lowest petal being spurred). Also, a flower or flowering stem of such a plant. M19.
b. Horticulture. A type of pansy developed by hybridization of the garden pansy, Viola wittrockiana, with the Pyrenean V. cornuta, differing from the former in its tufted perennial growth and smaller, usu. uniformly coloured flowers. L19.