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noun (pansies)
  1. Common name for a cultivated flowering plant, Viola tricolor hortensis, derived from heartsease; many garden varieties are hybrids.
  2. (colour) A deep purple colour, like that of the pansy.
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    1. (context, pejorative, slang) A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate.
    2. (slang) A timid man or boy.
Translations: 
  • Italian: pansé
adjective 
  1. wimpy, Wimpy; spineless; feeble.
  2. (colour) Of a deep purple colour, like that of the pansy.
Translations: (trans-top, colour)
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(trans-bottom) Etymology: From the French pensée, thought, as the plant resembles someone that is in deep thought, with a lowered head.


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