0 having a bluish-purple colour -- 紫羅蘭色的；藍紫色的
1 a small plant with pleasant-smelling purple, blue, or white flowers -- 堇菜；紫羅蘭；赤蓮
2 a bluish-purple colour -- 紫羅蘭色；藍紫色
Cockerels, cowslips and violets are disappearing from many people's lives.
The fact of the matter is that that very sophisticated lobby are not shrinking violets.
We are no blushing violets, but we are also no bulldozers.
He is not the most shrinking of violets in normal circumstances.
If somebody was just selling violets, nobody would say that it was a nuisance.
I remember, some months ago, taking my little granddaughter for a walk in the forest, when on a sunny bank she saw some violets.
Neither is the posy holder which, by no stretch of imagination, can be said to be used for anything other than a bunch of primroses, violets or very small-stemmed flowers.
When he enters, she sees the violets and asks how he came by them.
