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wild pansy
noun
any uncultivated or wild form of the common pansy, Viola tricolor.
wild pansy
noun
Also called: heartsease. love-in-idleness. Johnny-jump-up.a Eurasian violaceous plant, Viola tricolor, having purple, yellow, and pale mauve spurred flowers
any of various similar plants of the genus Viola
Word History and Origins
Origin of wild pansy1
Example Sentences
Another gown was a forget-me-not, one a wild pansy, others peonies.
The only human trace left by that voracious blast was a glove belonging to Patricia Brown in an automobile smothered in wild pansies.
I look down and see the wild pansies, small purple and white violets, growing at my feet.
And the wood-honeysuckle was coming into pink bloom everywhere; and millions of violets and wild pansies.
Here they took a sandy foot path where scanty patches of coarse grass and clusters of wild pansy marked the borders of the straggling wood.
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