johnny-jump-up

Questions about johnny-jump-up

What does johnny-jump-up mean?

johnny-jump-up means "a common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in johnny-jump-up?

johnny-jump-up has 4 syllables and divides as john-ny--jum-p-up under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for johnny-jump-up?

Close synonyms include wild pansy, heartsease, love-in-idleness, pink of my John, Viola tricolor. 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 johnny-jump-up a common word?

johnny-jump-up 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.