viola canina

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   Old World leafy-stemmed blue-flowered violet

   Synonymsdog violetheath violet

   Broaderviolet

Questions about viola canina

What does viola canina mean?

viola canina means "Old World leafy-stemmed blue-flowered violet".

What is another word for viola canina?

Close synonyms include dog violet, heath violet. 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 viola canina a common word?

viola canina 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.