bird's-foot violet

Questions about bird's-foot violet

What is another word for bird's-foot violet?

It depends which bird's-foot violet you mean. In the sense “common violet of the eastern United States with large pale blue or purple flowers resembling pansies”, the synonyms are pansy violet, Johnny-jump-up, wood violet, Viola pedata. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of bird's-foot violet?

WordNet records no antonym for bird's-foot violet. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for bird's-foot violet come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of bird's-foot violet

• Full entry for bird's-foot violetAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for bird's-foot violetWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.