名詞 viola:

1. any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola
2. large genus of flowering herbs of temperate regions
   同義詞：genus Viola
3. a bowed stringed instrument slightly larger than a violin, tuned a fifth lower

1. The viola is a stringed instrument.
   中提琴是一種弦樂器。

viola

n.Music （名詞）【音樂】
A stringed instrument of the violin family, slightly larger than a violin, tuned a fifth lower, and having a deeper, more sonorous tone.
中提琴：提琴家族中的一種弦樂器，稍大于小提琴，調(diào)音比小提琴低五度，聲音更為深沉、洪亮
An organ stop usually of eight-foot or four-foot pitch yielding stringlike tones.
音栓：八英尺或四英尺律的音孔，產(chǎn)生弦樂器的調(diào)子

來源：
Italian
意大利語
from Old Provenôal
源自 古普羅旺斯語
[probably of imitative origin]
[可能起源于擬聲詞的]

【引伸】
vio.list
n.（名詞）

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viola
viola 2

n.（名詞）
A plant of the genusViola, which includes the violets and pansies, especially a variety having flowers resembling violets in size and shape and pansies in coloration.
堇菜：一種堇菜 屬的植物，包括紫羅蘭和圓三色堇，尤指花朵大小形狀象紫羅蘭、色彩象圓三色堇的一種植物

來源：
Middle English
中古英語
from Latin
源自 拉丁語