water violet

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   featherfoil of Europe and western Asia having submerged and floating leaves and violet flowers

   SynonymsHottonia palustris

   Broaderfeatherfoil

Questions about water violet

What does water violet mean?

water violet means "featherfoil of Europe and western Asia having submerged and floating leaves and violet flowers".

What is another word for water violet?

Close synonyms include Hottonia palustris. 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 water violet a common word?

water 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.