violet-blue

ADJECTIVE
  1. of blue tinged with lavender
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How To Use violet-blue In A Sentence

  • The arrival of spring is associated with the flowers of the hawthorn, the return of the swifts and, of course, the violet-blue carpets of bluebells.
  • Resembling the regular lupin, the false lupin produces flowers much looser up the stem in a violet-blue.
  • Violet-blue primroses and gardenias skirt a fountain in a smaller circular garden near the front door.
  • Most studies of UVA and violet-blue light responses have implicated carotenoids and flavins as molecular photoreceptors.
  • Fully double spurless variety with deep violet-blue flowers that freely self-seeds. Times, Sunday Times
  • In 1879, Uskoff noted that isolated white blood cells displayed greater outgrowth of processes during microscopic examination with red light compared with violet-blue light.
  • Meadow clary – clusters of violet-blue flowers standing high on tall spikes. Plantwatch: a sight for sore eyes
  • Other Mantidae, of the genus Gongylus, have the anterior part of the thorax dilated and coloured either white, pink, or purple; and they so closely resemble flowers that, according to Mr. Wood-Mason, one of them, having a bright violet-blue prothoracic shield, was found in Pegu by a botanist, and was for a moment mistaken by him for a flower. Darwinism (1889)
  • A delicate touch of exotic beauty: Our . 50 Carat Total Weight Tanzanite Stud Earrings demand attention with their distinctive ability to change color from deep purple-blue to violet-blue.
  • Her eyes were a deep violet-blue colour, and she had little freckles dusted across the bridge of her nose and cheeks, which had the cutest dimples when she smiled.
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