pansy
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- noun
- /ˈpæn.zi/
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pensamiento
- The garden was filled with vibrant pansies that added color to the landscape.
A deer with black diamonds in in its eyes lay in a bed of black pansies.
- A deer with black diamonds in in its eyes lay in a bed of black pansies.
- Sun glow that smells like pansies.
Examples
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There will be more radish and breadtuber in the mix than usual, but we'll certainly have broccoli and, if we're lucky, some calendula and pansy.
Blog text (19) -
Olivia described everything from the canopied beds to the pansy-covered shelf lining when she stopped suddenly.
Fiction book (1995) -
Sometimes when I can't sleep, I think back to when I was a kid in the pansy garden.
Fiction book (1990) -
"Black-eyed Susan," she said, "Grace, Anna, Marigold, Pansy, Sarah..."
Fiction book (1994) -
Lee laughed as she reached across the table at Miss Pansy's, a tearoom around the corner from her father's store.
Fiction book (1996) -
And I'd be buying my pansies, and I'd be buying my daffodils from my pots, and I would be planting my planters for spring.
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She had to hand over her flower, a blue pansy; then the man escorted her over to the gate and stood there, as if to make sure she wouldn't slip in again.
Fiction book (1995) -
At this moment, the diary provides a wealth of pansy lore, including that the pansy is a strong aphrodisiac and that it also cures the clap.
Academic text (1999) -
Loose in the box are a small gold heart with an enameled pansy, some costume bracelets, and a thin string of real pearls that were given to my mother on her sixteenth birthday.
Fiction book (1994) -
There were the players slack-legged in their semi-swoons, wailing and giggling, and there were the equally unreal manicured hedges in front of English bungalows and perfect pansy patches.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
A small garden flower with soft, colorful, velvety petals
A small European flower like a violet with a long tube behind its petals
A small wild flower from Europe that many garden pansies come from
A small wildflower from Europe with three coloured petals
A small wild flower like a pansy with colorful petals
Compounds
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Pansy comes from the French word pensée, which means 'thought'. People called the small flower a 'thought' because its face-like petals made it a symbol of remembering, and the same root is in the English word pensive, meaning thoughtful.