downy yellow violet

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   violet of eastern North America having softly pubescent leaves and stems and clear yellow flowers with brown-purple veins

   SynonymsViola pubescens

   Broaderviolet

Questions about downy yellow violet

What does downy yellow violet mean?

downy yellow violet means "violet of eastern North America having softly pubescent leaves and stems and clear yellow flowers with brown-purple veins".

What is another word for downy yellow violet?

Close synonyms include Viola pubescens. 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 downy yellow violet a common word?

downy yellow 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.