long-spurred violet

1. 1.

   violet of eastern North America having lilac-purple flowers with a long slender spur

   SynonymsViola rostrata

   Broaderviolet

Questions about long-spurred violet

What does long-spurred violet mean?

long-spurred violet means "violet of eastern North America having lilac-purple flowers with a long slender spur".

What is another word for long-spurred violet?

Close synonyms include Viola rostrata. 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 long-spurred violet a common word?

long-spurred 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.