Meanings
nounlove-in-idleness (uncountable)
- uncountableViola tricolor, the wild pansy.
The second came up about ten days later in the lee of the channel marker, and it was called stepmother, or love-in-idleness.
1974, Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal, The Summer Book, Sort Of Books, published 2003, page 115
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived
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