pansy

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A deep purple colour, like that of the pansy

pansy colour:.

Of a deep purple colour, like that of the pansy
Common name for a cultivated flowering plant, Viola tricolor hortensis, derived from heartsease; many garden varieties are hybrids
A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate
A timid, weak man or boy; a wuss
Wimpy; spineless; feeble
{i} homosexual (derogatory); small plant of the violet family
If someone describes a man as a pansy, they mean that he is a homosexual. Any of several popular cultivated violets (genus Viola). Pansies have been grown for so long under such diverse conditions with such striking variations in colour and form that their origin is uncertain. Probably the garden pansy (V. wittrockiana) is a cultivated form of V. tricolor, a weed of European grainfields. Annuals or short-lived perennials, pansies grow 6-12 in. (15-30 cm) tall and have heart-shaped leaves at the base and oblong leaves growing from the stems. Velvety flowers occur in combinations of blue, yellow, and white. The smaller, usually purple, wild pansy is also known as Johnny-jump-up, heartsease, and love-in-idleness
large-flowered garden plant derived chiefly from the wild pansy of Europe and having velvety petals of various colors
tricolor and its blossom, originally purple and yellow
A plant of the genus Viola V
A timid man or boy
offensive terms for an openly homosexual man
A pansy is a small brightly coloured garden flower with large round petals
a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive
Cultivated varieties have very large flowers of a great diversity of colors
Called also heart's-ease, love-in-idleness, and many other quaint names
pansy boy
effeminate man (Slang)
pansy orchid
any of various orchids of the genus Miltonia having solitary or loosely racemose showy broadly spreading flowers
nansy pansy
effeminate; wimpy; weak
The pansy
paunce
The pansy
pance
field pansy
common Old World viola with creamy often violet-tinged flowers
pansies
plural of pansy
wild pansy
The heartsease
wild pansy
a common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived
pansy

    Silbentrennung

    pan·sy

    Türkische aussprache

    pänzi

    Aussprache

    /ˈpanzē/ /ˈpænziː/

    Etymologie

    [ 'pan-zE ] (noun.) 15th century. From the French pensée (“thought”), as the plant resembles someone that is in deep thought, with a lowered head.
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