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Pansies

Pansy \Pan"sy\, n.; pl. Pansies. [F. Pens['e]e thought, pansy, fr. penser to think, L. pensare to weigh, ponder. See Pensive.] (Bot.) 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.

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pansies

n. (pansy English)

Usage examples of "pansies".

If you find pansies growing wild, you can count on axolotls being there-abouts, ready to lend a man a hand.

The spade went one way, the pansies another as she jerked up and spun.

A woman in a cotton housedress and a faded apron watered the one colorful spot—a splash of pansies along the edge of the house.

A deck, she noticed, that he'd made his own with the simple addition of pottery planters filled with geraniums and pansies and trailing vines.

Spreading her raffia mat by the bed, presently filled with pansies, Alathea knelt, tugged on her cotton gloves, and set to.

He says we're to look for a clump of pansies, as I already knew, down at a place where two forks of a stream merge and ferns grow, high as a house top.

In midstream on a bit of an island was a little garden of pansies, purple, yellow, and violet with huge drooping petals.

Within the pile of sand and soil and rock from which the pansies sprouted, were a maze of tiny crevices and caverns, and from each peeked the feathered head of an axolotl, speckled and foolish.