A common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived.
Common violet of the eastern United States with large pale blue or purple flowers resembling pansies.
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Examples for "bird's-foot violet"
Examples for "bird's-foot violet"
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On a dry, gravelly, half-wooded hill-slope the bird's-foot violet grows in great abundance, and is sparse in neighboring districts.
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Besides, I had not seen my sweet wood violet then, he added, aggravatingly.
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She must not approach my little wood violet.
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The tall, towering sunflower, Mr. Fabian, fell instantly and irrecoverably in love with this tiny white wood violet.
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I underplant mine with the purple-leaved, violet-flowered Canadian wood violet Viola labradorica for a match made in heaven.
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Saint Valentine's day, the birds' bridal day, would be a very appropriate time for a wood violet to wed.
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Neither like an old family physician nor a new johnny-jump-up; just quiet and cool and pleasant.