'Viola tricolor' definitions:

Definition of 'Viola tricolor'

noun

A common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived [syn: wild pansy, Johnny-jump-up, heartsease, love-in-idleness, pink of my John, Viola tricolor]

From: GCIDE

Heart's-ease \Heart's"-ease`\ (h[aum]rts"[=e]z`), n.
1. Ease of heart; peace or tranquillity of mind or feeling. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
2. (Bot.) A species of violet (Viola tricolor), a common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived; -- called also pansy. [WordNet sense 1]
Syn: wild pansy, Johnny-jump-up, heartsease, love-in-idleness, pink of my John, Viola tricolor. [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
3. (Bot.) A violet of the Pacific coast of North America (Viola ocellata) having white petals tinged with yellow and deep violet. [WordNet sense 2]
Syn: two-eyed violet, heartsease, Viola ocellata. [WordNet 1.5]
4. (Bot.) A common Old World viola (Viola arvensis) with creamy often violet-tinged flowers. [WordNet sense 3]
Syn: field pansy, heartsease, Viola arvensis. [WordNet 1.5]

From: GCIDE

Pansy \Pan"sy\, n.; pl. Pansies. [F. Pens['e]e thought, pansy, fr. penser to think, L. pensare to weigh, ponder. See Pensive.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Viola (Viola tricolor) and its blossom, originally purple and yellow. Cultivated varieties have very large flowers of a great diversity of colors. Called also heart's-ease, love-in-idleness, and many other quaint names. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Violaquercitrin \Vi`o*la*quer"cit*rin\, n. (Chem.) A yellow crystalline glucoside obtained from the pansy (Viola tricolor), and decomposing into glucose and quercitrin. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Violet \Vi"o*let\, n. [F. violette a violet (cf. violet violet-colored), dim. of OF. viole a violet, L. viola; akin to Gr. ?. Cf. Iodine.]
1. (Bot.) Any plant or flower of the genus Viola, of many species. The violets are generally low, herbaceous plants, and the flowers of many of the species are blue, while others are white or yellow, or of several colors, as the pansy (Viola tricolor). [1913 Webster]
Note: The cultivated sweet violet is Viola odorata of Europe. The common blue violet of the eastern United States is Viola cucullata; the sand, or bird-foot, violet is Viola pedata. [1913 Webster]
2. The color of a violet, or that part of the spectrum farthest from red. It is the most refrangible part of the spectrum. [1913 Webster]
3. In art, a color produced by a combination of red and blue in equal proportions; a bluish purple color. --Mollett. [1913 Webster]
4. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small violet-colored butterflies belonging to Lycaena, or Rusticus, and allied genera. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
Corn violet. See under Corn.
Dame's violet. (Bot.) See Damewort.
Dogtooth violet. (Bot.) See under Dogtooth.
Water violet (Bot.), an aquatic European herb ({Hottonia palustris}) with pale purplish flowers and pinnatifid leaves. [1913 Webster]