wood violet

Questions about wood violet

What does wood violet mean?

wood violet means "common European violet that grows in woods and hedgerows". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for wood violet?

Close synonyms include hedge violet, Viola sylvatica, Viola reichenbachiana, bird's-foot violet, pansy 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 wood violet a common word?

wood violet is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.