Word Meanings - VIOLINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A pale yellow amorphous substance of alkaloidal nature and emetic properties, said to have been extracted from the root and foliage of the violet (Viola).

• EXTRACTABLEEXTRACTIBLE
  Capable of being extracted.
• Yellow-golds
  A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye.
• VIOLETEAR
  Any tropical humming bird of the genus Petasophora, having violet or purplish ear tufts.
• Violation
  The act of violating, treating with violence, or injuring; the state of being violated.
• Yellowhammer
  A common European finch (Emberiza citrinella). The color of the male is bright yellow on the breast, neck, and sides of the head, with the back yellow and brown, and the top of the head and the tail quills blackish. Called also yellow bunting, scr
• VIOLETTIP
  A very handsome American butterfly (Polygonia interrogationis). Its wings are mottled with various shades of red and brown and have violet tips.
• Alkaloidal
  Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, alkali.
• Violative
  Violating, or tending to violate.
• Yellowish
  Somewhat yellow; as, amber is of a yellowish color.
• YELLOWBOOK
  In France, an official government publication bound in yellow covers.
• Natureless
  Not in accordance with nature; unnatural.
• Yellowlegs
  Any one of several species of long-legged sandpipers of the genus Totanus, in which the legs are bright yellow; -- called also stone snipe, tattler, telltale, yellowshanks; and yellowshins. See Tattler, 2.
• YELLOWCOVERED
  Covered or bound in yellow paper. Yellow-covered literature, cheap sensational novels and trashy magazines; -- formerly so called from the usual color of their covers. [Colloq. U. S.] Bartlett.

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