DOGTOOTH VIOLET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dogtooth violet mean? 

• DOGTOOTH VIOLET (noun)
  The noun DOGTOOTH VIOLET has 1 sense:

1. perennial woodland spring-flowering plant; widely cultivated

  Familiarity information: DOGTOOTH VIOLET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOGTOOTH VIOLET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perennial woodland spring-flowering plant; widely cultivated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

dog's-tooth violet; dogtooth; dogtooth violet

Hypernyms ("dogtooth violet" is a kind of...):

liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dogtooth violet"):

blonde lilian; Erythronium albidum; white dog's-tooth violet; white dogtooth violet (North American dogtooth having solitary white flowers with yellow centers and blue or pink exteriors)

amberbell; Erythronium americanum; trout lily; yellow adder's tongue (eastern North American dogtooth having solitary yellow flowers marked with brown or purple and spotted interiors)

Erythronium dens-canis; European dogtooth (sturdy European dogtooth with rose to mauve flowers; cultivated in many varieties)

Erythronium californicum; fawn lily (California dogtooth violet with creamy white flowers sometimes yellow-tinged)

Erythronium grandiflorum; glacier lily; snow lily (dogtooth violet of western North America having bright yellow flowers)

Holonyms ("dogtooth violet" is a member of...):

Erythronium; genus Erythronium (perennial bulbous herbs most of northern United States: dogtooth violet; adder's tongue; trout lily; fawn lily)