Wild pansy

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Viola tricolor, a European wildflower with medicinal properties, which was formerly believed to ease heartache.

    "Murray ("App. Méd.," t. I., p. 789) gives a numerous list of physicians who have found advantage from the use of wild pansy in treating the crusta lactea of children."

  2. 2
    a common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived wordnet
  3. 3
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wild, pansy.

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