bird's-foot violet

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   common violet of the eastern United States with large pale blue or purple flowers resembling pansies

   Synonymspansy violetJohnny-jump-upwood violetViola pedata

   Broaderviolet

Questions about bird's-foot violet

What does bird's-foot violet mean?

bird's-foot violet means "common violet of the eastern United States with large pale blue or purple flowers resembling pansies".

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

Close synonyms include pansy violet, Johnny-jump-up, wood violet, Viola pedata. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bird's-foot violet a common word?

bird's-foot violet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.