viola
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- n any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola
- n large genus of flowering herbs of temperate regions
- n a bowed stringed instrument slightly larger than a violin, tuned a fifth lower
- Boris Kroyt, 72, Russian-born viola virtuoso and for 31 years a pillar of the Budapest String Quartet; of cancer; in Manhattan.
- KronosDavid Harrington, violin; John Sherba, violin; Hank Dutt, viola; and Jennifer Culp, cellohas been commissioning new work since its earliest days, and more than 450 .
- The viola is in nature an undersized pansy.