wild pansy
any uncultivated or wild form of the common pansy, Viola tricolor.
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How to use wild pansy in a sentence
Under the edge of the footpath through the wheat a wild pansy blooms.
Nature Near London | Richard JefferiesApropos of bolts, who does not remember Oberons poetical story of the wild pansy (Viola tricolor) marked by Cupids bolt?
The Ornithology of Shakespeare | James Edmund Harting
British Dictionary definitions for wild pansy
Also called: heartsease, love-in-idleness, (in the US) 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
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