Subscriber login


Forgot your password?

Library card login

Other

heartsease

Pronunciation: /ˈhɑːtsiːz/
(also heart's-ease)
Definition of heartsease

noun

  • a wild European pansy which typically has purple and yellow flowers. It has given rise to hybrids from which most garden pansies were developed.
    • Viola tricolor, family Violaceae

Origin:

late Middle English: origin uncertain, the term being applied by herbalists to both the pansy and the wallflower in the 16th century

heartsease in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of heartsease in the US English dictionary
  |  Cite

Word of the day

epithalamium

/ ˌɛpɪθəˈleɪmɪəm /
noun
a song or poem celebrating a marriage …