violet-flowered petunia
- noun
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petunia de flores violetas
- She planted a row of violet-flowered petunias along the walkway to add a splash of color.
Examples
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The violet-flowered petunia brightened the garden with its vibrant blooms throughout spring.
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I bought a violet-flowered petunia for my balcony.
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Horticulturists recommend the violet-flowered petunia for its hardiness and attractive appearance.
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The garden is full of violet-flowered petunias.
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Horticulturists recommend the violet-flowered petunia for its hardiness and attractive appearance.
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She planted a row of violet-flowered petunias along the walkway to add a splash of color.
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The violet-flowered petunia brightened the garden with its vibrant blooms throughout spring.
Synonyms
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A small plant with bright, trumpet-shaped flowers often grown in gardens
A small plant with single violet to pink flowers from South America
A garden flower made by crossing two different petunias with single or double bright blooms
A popular garden flower with many colorful trumpet-shaped blooms
Surface Forms
Morphology
violet-flowered + petunia
The phrase is compositionally built: 'violet-flowered' signals a plant 'having violet (purple) flowers' and 'petunia' is a flowering plant, so the overall meaning (a petunia with violet/rose-red flowers) is directly inferable from the parts. This color-adjective + -flowered + noun pattern is productive and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent meanings would readily understand it.
Etymology
The name violet-flowered petunia comes from a simple description: a petunia that has violet flowers, and the word flowered tells you it has blooms. So it means 'a petunia plant with violet-colored flowers'.