Pulsegleaner
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That sort of depends. If you define a violet as "One of several species in the genus Viola ", then they don't necessarily have to be. There are lavender violets, bright purple violets, pink violets, white violets, even yellow violets. Heck Viola soraria, The common blue violet (i.e. the one most of the people in this country have growing in their yards, and hence the one most of us would probably think of*), comes in purple, white, confederate (white with a purple eye in the middle). Delft (white with purple freckles) and so on.
That actually reminds me of an interesting tidbit, apparently, the world and concept of "orange" (as in the color), didn't exist in Western languages until oranges (the fruit) were introduced. (despite the fact that there are plenty of orange things that would have already been familiar to them.)
Oh, and in traditional Chinese and Japanese speech, "blue" and "green" are considered the same color. In fact, Japanese people refer to the green light in a traffic light as blue, even though it's the same color as ours are.
*As opposed to Europe, where they would probably think of the Parma violet, Viola odorata (the one that actually is the SMELL/TASTE "violet")
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