Lilac vs. Violet

Lilacnoun

A large shrub of the genus Syringa, especially Syringa vulgaris, bearing white, pale-pink, or purple flowers.

Lilacnoun

A flower of the lilac shrub.

Lilacnoun

(color) A pale purple color, the color of some lilac flowers.

Lilacadjective

(colour) having a pale purple colour.

Lilacnoun

A shrub of the genus Syringa. There are six species, natives of Europe and Asia. Syringa vulgaris, the common lilac, and Syringa Persica, the Persian lilac, are frequently cultivated for the fragrance and beauty of their purplish or white flowers. In the British colonies various other shrubs have this name.

Lilacnoun

A light purplish color like that of the flower of the purplish lilac.

Lilacnoun

any of various plants of the genus Syringa having large panicles of usually fragrant flowers

Lilacadjective

of a pale purple color

Lilacnoun

a Eurasian shrub or small tree of the olive family, which has fragrant violet, pink, or white blossom and is a popular garden ornamental.

Lilacnoun

a pale pinkish-violet colour

Violetnoun

A bluish-purple colour.

Violetnoun

Viola, a genus of fragrant plants with white, purple or yellow flowers.

Violetnoun

Any of several plants that look like the plants of the genus Viola but are taxonomically unrelated to them.

Violetadjective

Having a bluish-purple colour.

Violetnoun

Any plant or flower of the genus Viola, of many species. The violets are generally low, herbaceous plants, and the flowers of many of the species are blue, while others are white or yellow, or of several colors, as the pansy (Viola tricolor).

Violetnoun

The color of a violet, or that part of the spectrum farthest from red. It is the most refrangible part of the spectrum.

Violetnoun

In art, a color produced by a combination of red and blue in equal proportions; a bluish purple color.

Violetnoun

Any one of numerous species of small violet-colored butterflies belonging to Lycæna, or Rusticus, and allied genera.

Violetadjective

Dark blue, inclining to red; bluish purple; having a color produced by red and blue combined.

Violetnoun

any of numerous low-growing small-flowered violas

Violetnoun

a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum

Violetadjective

of a color midway between red and blue