herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests

genus Viola, Viola - large genus of flowering herbs of temperate regions

violet - any of numerous low-growing small-flowered violas

field pansy, Viola arvensis, heartsease - common Old World viola with creamy often violet-tinged flowers

horned violet, tufted pansy, Viola cornuta - European viola with an unusually long corolla spur

pansy, Viola tricolor hortensis - large-flowered garden plant derived chiefly from the wild pansy of Europe and having velvety petals of various colors

heartsease, Johnny-jump-up, love-in-idleness, pink of my John, Viola tricolor, wild pansy - a common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived

dilleniid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs

family Violaceae, Violaceae, violet family - a family of order Parietales including the genera Viola; Hybanthus; Hymenanthera; Melicytus

viola - any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola

bowed stringed instrument, string - stringed instruments that are played with a bow; "the strings played superlatively well"