violaceous

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They were amaranthine and violaceous and subtly velvet.

From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2019

Shadows come from the west,—shadows flung by cloud-pile over cloud-pile; and these, like evening shadows upon snow, are violaceous blue....

From Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman by Gould, George M. (George Milbrey)

Spores globose, minutely warted, violaceous, 8–10 mic. in diameter.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)

Spores globose, dark violaceous, the surface minutely warted, the warts with a reticulate arrangement, 7–9 mic. in diameter.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)

Sporangia gregarious, sub-globose, rugulose-squamulose, .6–.8 mm., sulphur-yellow, stipitate; peridium membranous, covered with calcareous scales; stipe stout, white, charged with lime, furrowed; columella none; capillitium strongly calcareous, the nodules large, white; spores violaceous, rough, 9–11 �.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)