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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
heartsease is a noun meaning "a common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived
violet of Pacific coast of North America having white petals tinged with yellow and deep violet
common Old World viola with creamy often violet-tinged flowers
the absence of mental stress or anxiety
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for heartsease come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.