Violet, LA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Louisiana
Population (2000): 8555
Housing Units (2000): 2918
Land area (2000): 4.057589 sq. miles (10.509108 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.483687 sq. miles (1.252743 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.541276 sq. miles (11.761851 sq. km)
FIPS code: 78855
Located within: Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
Location: 29.901244 N, 89.896860 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 70092
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords: Violet, LA Violet

Source: U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
 

Violet \Vi"o*let\, n. [F. violette a violet (cf. violet violet-colored), dim. of OF. viole a violet, L. viola; akin to Gr. ?. Cf. Iodine.]

1. (Bot.) Any plant or flower of the genus Viola, of many species. The violets are generally low, herbaceous plants, and the flowers of many of the species are blue, while others are white or yellow, or of several colors, as the pansy (Viola tricolor). [1913 Webster]

Note: The cultivated sweet violet is Viola odorata of Europe. The common blue violet of the eastern United States is Viola cucullata; the sand, or bird-foot, violet is Viola pedata. [1913 Webster]

2. The color of a violet, or that part of the spectrum farthest from red. It is the most refrangible part of the spectrum. [1913 Webster]

3. In art, a color produced by a combination of red and blue in equal proportions; a bluish purple color. --Mollett. [1913 Webster]

4. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small violet-colored butterflies belonging to Lycaena, or Rusticus, and allied genera. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]

Corn violet. See under Corn.

Dame's violet. (Bot.) See Damewort.

Dogtooth violet. (Bot.) See under Dogtooth.

Water violet (Bot.), an aquatic European herb (Hottonia palustris) with pale purplish flowers and pinnatifid leaves. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

Violet \Vi"o*let\, a. [Cf. F. violet. See Violet, n.]

Dark blue, inclining to red; bluish purple; having a color produced by red and blue combined. [1913 Webster]

Violet shell (Zool.), any species of Ianthina; -- called also violet snail. See Ianthina.

Violet wood, a name given to several kinds of hard purplish or reddish woods, as king wood, myall wood, and the wood of the Andira violacea, a tree of Guiana. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

22 Moby Thesaurus words for "violet": amethystine, lavender, lilac, livid, magenta, mauve, mulberry, orchid, pansy-purple, plum-colored, plum-purple, purple, purplescent, purplish, purply, purpurate, purpure, purpureal, purpurean, purpureous, raisin-colored, violaceous

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
 

violet adj : of a color midway between red and blue [syn: purple, purplish]

noun

1: any of numerous low-growing small-flowered violas
2: a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum [syn: reddish blue]

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

Violet \Vi"o*let\, n. [F. violette a violet (cf. violet violet-colored), dim. of OF. viole a violet, L. viola; akin to Gr. ?. Cf. Iodine.]

1. (Bot.) Any plant or flower of the genus Viola, of many species. The violets are generally low, herbaceous plants, and the flowers of many of the species are blue, while others are white or yellow, or of several colors, as the pansy (Viola tricolor).

Note: The cultivated sweet violet is Viola odorata of Europe. The common blue violet of the eastern United States is V. cucullata; the sand, or bird-foot, violet is V. pedata.

2. The color of a violet, or that part of the spectrum farthest from red. It is the most refrangible part of the spectrum.

3. In art, a color produced by a combination of red and blue in equal proportions; a bluish purple color. --Mollett.

4. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small violet-colored butterflies belonging to Lyc[ae]na, or Rusticus, and allied genera.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Violet \Vi"o*let\, a. [Cf. F. violet. See Violet, n.]

Dark blue, inclining to red; bluish purple; having a color produced by red and blue combined.

Violet shell (Zo["o]l.), any species of Ianthina; -- called also violet snail. See Ianthina.

Violet wood, a name given to several kinds of hard purplish or reddish woods, as king wood, myall wood, and the wood of the Andira violacea, a tree of Guiana.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)