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love-in-idleness

love-in-idleness noun: viola tricolor, the wild pansy.

Noun

love-in-idleness (uncountable)

  1. Viola tricolor, the wild pansy.
    • The second came up about ten days later in the lee of the channel marker, and it was called stepmother, or love-in-idleness.1974, Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal, The Summer Book, Sort Of Books, published 2003, page 115

Questions about love-in-idleness

What does love-in-idleness mean?
Love-in-idleness means viola tricolor, the wild pansy.
What part of speech is love-in-idleness?
Love-in-idleness is a noun.

Words near love-in-idleness in the dictionary

  1. love-hating
  2. love-hatred
  3. love-hatreds
  4. love-in
  5. love-in-a-mist
  6. love-in-idleness
  7. love-in-winter
  8. love-ins
  9. love-joust
  10. love-knot
  11. love-knots

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