field pansy

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   common Old World viola with creamy often violet-tinged flowers

   SynonymsheartseaseViola arvensis

   Broaderviola

Questions about field pansy

What does field pansy mean?

field pansy means "common Old World viola with creamy often violet-tinged flowers".

What is another word for field pansy?

Close synonyms include heartsease, Viola arvensis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is field pansy a common word?

field pansy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.