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pansies

pansies is the plural of pansy.

Meaning of pansy

Noun

pansy (plural pansies)

  1. A cultivated flowering plant, derived by hybridization within species Viola tricolor.
    • The Daughters of the Flood have ſearch'd the Mead / For Violets pale, and cropt the Poppy's Head: / The Short Narciſſus and fair Daffodil, / Pancies to pleaſe the Sight, and Caſſia ſvveet to ſmell: […]1697, Virgil, “The Second Pastoral. Or, Alexis.”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 6
  2. A deep purple colour, like that of the pansy.
  3. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Junonia.
    Synonyms:
    argus
  4. (colloquial, derogatory) A timid, weak man or boy; a wuss.
  5. (colloquial, dated, derogatory) A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate.

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Phrases with pansies

Questions about pansies

What is pansies the plural of?
Pansies is the plural of pansy.

Words near pansies in the dictionary

  1. panshon
  2. panshons
  3. panshway
  4. panshways
  5. pansied
  6. pansies
  7. pansification
  8. pansified
  9. pansil
  10. pansinusitis
  11. pansinusopathy

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