wild pansy

noun

a common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived

• Syn: ↑Johnny-jump-up, ↑heartsease, ↑love-in-idleness, ↑pink of my John, ↑Viola tricolor

• Hypernyms: ↑viola

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noun

: a common and long-cultivated European herb (Viola tricolor) which has rounded basal leaves and pinnately parted stem leaves and short-spurred flowers that are prevailingly blue or purple mixed with white and yellow and from which most of the common garden pansies are derived — called also heartsease, Johnny-jump-up

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any uncultivated or wild form of the common pansy, Viola tricolor.

[1895-1900]

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wild pansy,

the common pansy, occurring as a weed, especially in grainfields and other open areas, with small flowers compounded of purple, yellow, and white; heartsease; Johnny-jump-up; love-in-idleness.