Love-in-idleness

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Noun
  1. 1
    Viola tricolor, the wild pansy. uncountable

    "The second came up about ten days later in the lee of the channel marker, and it was called stepmother, or love-in-idleness."

  2. 2
    a common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived wordnet

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heartseasejohnny-jump-uppink of my johnviola tricolorwild pansy

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"The second came up about ten days later in the lee of the channel marker, and it was called stepmother, or love-in-idleness."

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