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Johnny-jump-up definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: 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]
2: common violet of the eastern United States with large pale blue or purple flowers resembling pansies [syn: bird's-foot violet, pansy violet, Johnny-jump-up, wood violet, Viola pedata]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1842 1. a common cultivated European viola (Viola tricolor) which has short-spurred flowers usually blue or purple mixed with white and yellow and from which most of the garden pansies are derived; broadly any of various small-flowered cultivated pansies 2. any of various American violets