Pansy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various plants of the genera Achimenes or Viola, especially V. tricolor or its hybrids, having flowers with velvety petals of various colors.
  • n. A deep to strong violet.
  • n. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a man or boy who is considered effeminate.
  • n. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a homosexual man.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Common name for a cultivated flowering plant, Viola tricolor hortensis, derived from heartsease; many garden varieties are hybrids.
  • n. A deep purple colour, like that of the pansy.
  • n. A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate.
  • n. A timid, weak man or boy; a wuss.
  • adj. Wimpy; spineless; feeble.
  • adj. Of a deep purple colour, like that of the pansy.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A plant of the genus Viola (Viola tricolor) and its blossom, originally purple and yellow. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A favorite species of violet, Viola tricolor; the heart's-ease.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. offensive term for an openly homosexual man
  • n. large-flowered garden plant derived chiefly from the wild pansy of Europe and having velvety petals of various colors
  • n. a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive
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