wild pansy

1. 1.

   a common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived

   SynonymsJohnny-jump-upheartseaselove-in-idlenesspink of my JohnViola tricolor

   Broaderviola

Questions about wild pansy

What does wild pansy mean?

wild pansy means "a common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived".

What is another word for wild pansy?

Close synonyms include Johnny-jump-up, 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 wild pansy a common word?

wild 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.