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wild pansy

noun

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


wild pansy

noun

  1. Also calledheartseaselove-in-idlenessin the USJohnny-jump-up a Eurasian violaceous plant, Viola tricolor, having purple, yellow, and pale mauve spurred flowers
  2. any of various similar plants of the genus Viola
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of wild pansy1

First recorded in 1895–1900
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Another gown was a forget-me-not, one a wild pansy, others peonies.

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The only human trace left by that voracious blast was a glove belonging to Patricia Brown in an automobile smothered in wild pansies.

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I look down and see the wild pansies, small purple and white violets, growing at my feet.

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And the wood-honeysuckle was coming into pink bloom everywhere; and millions of violets and wild pansies.

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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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