wild pansy
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English
Noun
wild pansy (plural wild pansies)
- A European wildflower (Viola tricolor), with medicinal properties, and believed to ease heartache.
- 1880, Armand Trousseau, Treatise on therapeutics v.2, page 130:
- 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.
- 1899, Edward Step, The Romance of Wild Flowers: A Companion to the British Flora, page 100:
- They have all purple or blue flowers, but the Wild Pansy differs in more striking fashion from the others.
- 2013, Carol Klein, Wild Flowers: Nature's own to garden grown, page 37:
- Chief amongst them is the little annual field pansy, V. arvensis, a plant apparently on the increase since modern farming methods suit it well. It is close to, and often crosses with, the wild pansy, V. tricolor.
- 2017, Niall Mac Coitir, Ireland's Wild Plants – Myths, Legends & Folklore:
- In fact, the wild pansy was valued in ancient times for its potency in love charms.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wild, pansy.
Translations
Viola tricolor
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References
wild pansy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “wild pansy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “pansy”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
