Definition of Field pansy

1. Noun. Common Old World viola with creamy often violet-tinged flowers.

Exact synonyms: Heartsease, Viola Arvensis
Generic synonyms: Viola

Lexicographical Neighbors of Field Pansy

field mushroom
field mustard
field of battle
field of consciousness
field of fire
field of fixation
field of force
field of honor
field of operation
field of operations
field of regard
field of study
field of view
field of vision
field officer
field pansy (current term)
field pea
field pennycress
field planes
field poppy
field press censorship
field ration
field restriction
field sandbur
field scabious
field seam
field shaping coils
field shift
field shifts

Literary usage of Field pansy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"Although the flower-stalk in the field pansy, Heart's-ease (V. tricolor), and other species of the ..."

2. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation: Lectures Delivered at the by Hugo de Vries (1905)
"Read " field-pansy " for " field pansy," line 3 from bottom of p. 39. Read " pubescent variety " for " pubescent-variety," line 4 from top of p. 139. ..."

3. Report of Transactions (1900)
"little white field pansy was found several times, and the scented Violet was abundantly in ... Wart Cress. Sea Radish. Dyers' Weed. White field pansy. ..."

4. The Floral World and Garden Guide by Shirley Hibberd (1862)
"... a fact which may easily be demonstrated by instituting a comparison between the " Viola tricolor," or common field pansy, and the hybrid varieties ..."

5. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"... the most generally known being F. tricolor, the pansy, which has become naturalized in some parts of the country, and the field pansy (var. ..."

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